Stephen,
Your copy of system commander will not work... it cannot deal with
drives over 1024cyl. they have an upgrade thats soposed to work... i never
tried it. Lilo will work as long as you first cyl of your partition is
under 1024 :)
I have (had?) a program (i think it was masterbooter) that will
boot second drives, you may also be able to do this with your bios... but
its a pain. I would suggest the above 2 over floppy boot...
No matter how you do it, its going to be extra difficult with 2
drives, and with lots of partitions. I think i had 5 OS's at one time on
one drive, and it was a major pain gettting it to work, and changing any
one OS!
Its a pity you didnt bring it in last night! we could have figured
things out and got things working for you.
Jamie
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Stephen A. Brenner wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
>
> At 11:06 AM 5/25/00 -0700, Linux Rocks! wrote:
>
> >As long as you have windows as your first partition, and you dont try to
> >use more than 4 partitions total (including your swap partition), and you
> >dont try to shrink an existing M$ partition, your usually ok.
> >
>
> Windows is on a separate c: drive. There are four partitions on the second
> drive.
> I placed linux on the last partition. I was hesistant to install LILO since
> Linux needed to be installed within the 1024 cylinder limit. I ended up with
> two partitions for the Linux install (/swap and /) on the last partition
> (so I guess
> there are now five partitions.
>
> Perhaps my best bet is to boot from floppy when I need Linux on that system.
> How would I create that boot floppy? Would it bring the Linux system up
> normally?
>
> BTW, I had a 5 yr. old copy of System Commander that failed to install.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> >If you have a 4 gig disk, and you have partitioned 2 gigs for windows, and
> >left the other 2 gigs unpartitioned/used, you should be able to:
> >
> >* boot any current linux distro from cd/floppy/loadlin/net/?
> >* Configure unused disk space for linux use (requires re-booting)
> >* format partitions/install linux
> >* install boot loader (lilo, loadlin, masterbooter, system commander, ...)
> >* reboot computer and use your choice of operating system (you can
> >actually have many OS's on one hard disk)
> >
> >Jamie
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >
>
