Re: Newbe Linux install...success

["Michael Small" <smalliis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I repartitioned drive #1 which has win 95 installed on it installed it on
the unused portion.
Things fired right up. There seemed to be some sector errors on drive #2.

Thanks for all of your help.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Pruden <x97pruden1@wmich.edu>
To: klug@klug.armintl.com <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Newbe Linux install


Rich Perna wrote:

> Try installing Linux on the first hard drive, put Windows on the 2nd.  If
> it's not a BIOS issue (which it shouldn't be, unless your PC is REALLY
old),
> it may have gotten confused because the / partition (specifically, /boot/)
> isn't in the first 1024 cylinders of the boot drive (or, the first 500
meg).
>
> Give that a shot..
>
> Rich

I'd hesitate to do  that, cause Windows might not want to boot off of the
second drive...  Might work, though.
Personally, I have a 2 gig drive with Win95 (and NT) on it, as /dev/hda.
Lilo
is setup in the bootsector of this drive.  Linux is on /dev/hdc, with / as
either hdc1 or hdc2, depending on what dist I am running.
(hdc1 is redhat, hdc2 is experimental stuff)
Chris