Partitioning

[zscoundrel]

LILO can boot partitions from the same or from different drives.  Not 
sure what that last comment was about.  It doesn't really matter as long 
as there is an OS on it.

crash3m at trelane.net wrote:

> 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:
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>>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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