Re: How many Hard Drives?

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From: Pugsly
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:00

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Andrew Morris (thunder@ozramp.ozramp.net.au) wrote:
: Sorry to keep going on... 

: I have nearly finished my machine, have most of the disk sets from when
: I used to run a Linux box, but have one question...

: I used to run on two hard disks, Linux on a 170 MB drive, and Windows 3.1
: on a 80 MB.... (tight)

: My question is, if I want to run Windows 95, and Linux, am I better to 
: purchase two hard disks, say 2x 2.5 gb and use one drive for Linux,
: and one drive for 95?  or will 95 and Linux live happily on the one disk?

They will both live happily on the one disk. I would still get the 2
2.5 GB drives tho. You can never have too much hard disk space :-)

: I know you can run both on the one drive, but I as I am wary of Lilo, I 
: prefer to use loadlin (as I am now), and boot Linux from Dos, or a menu...

I have been running linux for 2+ years now and have never had a problem with
lilo. 

: Can I still use Loadlin if i have both OS's running on the one drive, or

You sure can. However, you will need to run loadlin in dos mode, that is you
cant pop a dos shell and run loadlin, you will need to run it from your
multiboot or shut windows down to dos mode in order to run it.

: Thanks to everyone who has pointed me in the right direction so far...


hope this is helpful

Cheers
Brett


--
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From: j4823363@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (Pugsly)
Subject: Re: How many Hard Drives?
Date: 1996/08/13
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