Partitioning

crash3m at trelane.net crash3m at trelane.net
Sat Jul 27 20:50:45 CDT 2002


I may be mistaken, but cant lilo take care of booting OS's on different
drives?

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
mac ten <dlegion at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> I have always went with hardware over software, so I
> would just buy another hard drive and a hard drive
> selector.  That would keep the two OS's physically
> seperated and the selector lets you choose which OS's
> you want to boot.
> 
> Anyway, thats what I would do. Just thought I would
> throw that out there to give you something to think
> about.
> 
> --- Ian <icollins at iland.net> wrote:
> > I would like some advice on how to create a
> > partition without destroying any of the file on it
> > including my current operating system. Is it
> > possible so that I don't have to reload my current
> > OS.
> > I want to dual boot Linux Red Hat 7 and Windows XP.
> > In the Linux for Dummies 3rd Edition it mentions
> > something about fips. Would this work for me, and
> > how reliable is it.
> > The machine that I am using is an HP 750n, Intel 4
> > 1.7 mhz, 512 ram, 80 gig HD.
> > I am new to Linux and would appreciate any help that
> > I could get.
> > 
> > Thanks, Ian Collins
> > 
> 
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