I didn't use the Maxtor software because early on in the installation it
asked for a boot disk of the OS I would be using. I don't even know what a
boot disk in linux is.

This is irritating, because the OS used by the Maxtor installation program
is DR-DOS from caldera.

Joel
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:51:22PM -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> In my experience, using a boot-preparation software like the one from
> Maxtor is a bad thing with Linux.  The BIOS generally will screw up how a
> HD looks, so different utils in Linux will show them differently,
> depending on whether the software checks the BIOS or the HD itself.  That
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