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Darrin Smith wrote in message <774h70$kha$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>...
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>The question I have is regarding using Lilo with Win98.
>My setup is as follows....
>Primary Master HDD Quantum 5.1GB Win98/Fat32
>Primary Slave HDD Quantum 1.0GB Fat32(empty)
>Secondary Master CD-ROM Creative 8x ATAPI
>I would like to leave my primary win98 5.1 drive alone and use all
the 1.0GB
>for the linux installation.
>Will Lilo allow this configuration? and will it work? ie. can I dual
boot
>two OS's on TWO separate drives? From the book it appears as though
it will
>work just fine if I specify /dev/hdb as the linux partition.
>Oh and will Linux be able to "see" my CD-ROM as it is on the
secondary IDE.

This is similar to my configuration, and it's no problem at all.

Win 98 won't be able to see your Linux drive and will change the drive
letter of your CD-ROM. I got around this by putting another small
partition (200Mb) on my windows drive and using it for the Win 98 swap
file, so that the CD still uses the originally assigned letter .

Doug Cox
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