Day Brown wrote:
>
> Then I take it, that i'd havta switch the drives, put
> the Linux drive on IDE 1, the drdos on IDE 0, and download
> loadlin from mandrake or someplace?
Loadlin is part of the BasicLinux package:
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/download.html
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Or you can download it from the Slackware site. All of
the Slackware distros probably have it, but here's the
location for Slackware 3.5:
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ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-3.5/kernels/
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> drdos offers a config.sys option such as...
> ? c:\drdos\loadlin.exe
> at which point it would halt and wait my Y/N choice to
> run loadlin
This is OK so far.
> and then it would switch to begin booting off the Linux MBR,
Loadlin doesn't use the Linux MBR. It boots a Linux kernel
(which resides on the DOS filesystem). The first loadlin
parameter specifies the path to the kernel; the second specifies
the location of the root Linux partition.
> and abandon running the rest of config.sys ...
> should loadlin be first, before emm386.exe or anything...?
The cleanest approach is to put the loadlin option first
in your config.sys. Alternatively you can launch loadlin
from the commandline (or a menu) at a later stage.
Cheers,
Steven
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