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Doug Cox wrote:

> Darrin Smith wrote in message <774h70$kha$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>...
> <snip>
> >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
> Work to ride, Ride to work...
> Doug_Cox@Bigpond.com
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/Doug_Cox/

Aye, ?

Installing Linux will alter the CDrom drive ID, but the windows swap file
is, on a standard install, still on C:.  Perhaps Doug is suggesting that
a performance increase is expected if the swap file is placed on another
drive.

IFF that drive is on the other IDE channel

LH