----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...
>
> [snip]
>
>
> > > I wanted to use SC because they have finally gotten their
> partitioning
> > > program to where it can do anything that PM does and it has the
benifit
> that
> > > with a little "tom-foolary" it can be installed on any system and it
is
> > > available every time you boot.
> > [snip]
> >
> > That sounds like a nice feature. Do you mean you can actually
> > run it in Linux, like DiskDrake?
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
> No.
> It does not run from the OS.
> All the option and fields for SysCommand you can run during boot. They are
a
> function of the boot loader.
> You do not need Windows installed in order to install SC and you do not
need
> to boot from a floppy as with PM (for a non-Windows system).
> To install it all you need is a Win98 boot disk and a small Fat32
partition
> on the 1st hd. Mine is 200MB but it could be smaller.
>
> As I was writing this I was also working with SC on my Linux system and I
> wish to report success I am now able to boot either Be or 7.2b3. Now once
I
> attach the other hd and put 7.1 back on it I'll be set. ( The problem I
was
> having was because I was used to using Grub and I had not been creating a
> /boot and SC needed it in order to pick-up LILO.)
>
> Charles
>
