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Dual booting Win98 & OpenLinux
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| moodswingz32 2003-06-30, 3:04 am |
| Here's my scenario.
I have two physical hard drives. One is 20GB the other is 4GB.
I have Win98 installed on the first hard drive and I want to install Caldera OpenLinux on the second hard drive. I tried using fdisk from windows and partiton magic to setup the Linux OS. However, partition magic only sees the first hard drive. I partitioned the 2nd drive within fdisk and Win98 sees both drives.
Did I go wrong within fdisk? I formatted the 2nd hard drive from the DOS prompt. Should I partition the 2nd drive and not format it from DOS? Just trying to gather any helpful info. I'll keep playing with it until I get it right. Thanks for any feedback. | |
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| if you want to install Linux ,boot from the linux CD-room
the linux install will ask you where you want your new linux
system installed ,if you do the partition with Linux fdisk and you want to
install in the second hard drive you do something like this:
fdisk /dev/hdb were hdb is the second hard drive and then partition
your drive
after that you will have to install LILO or GRUB so you can dual-boot
between W98 and Linux
make sure you install the boot loader in the master boot record (MBR) |
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