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by Bo » Sat, 10 Jan 1998 04:00:00

I'm new to Linux and I'm not sure about where I can install it. I'm using
System Commander boot manager on a system with multiple OS's and 4 SCSI hard
drives. I want to install Linux on the 4th drive (SCSI ID3). Can this be
done or must the boot partition be on a drive with SCSI ID0 or ID1? I'm using
the Red Hat 5.0 distribution. Thanks in advance for your help.

Bob

by **Rod Smi** » Sun, 11 Jan 1998 04:00:00

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Quote:> I'm new to Linux and I'm not sure about where I can install it. I'm using
> System Commander boot manager on a system with multiple OS's and 4 SCSI hard
> drives. I want to install Linux on the 4th drive (SCSI ID3). Can this be
> done or must the boot partition be on a drive with SCSI ID0 or ID1? I'm using
> the Red Hat 5.0 distribution. Thanks in advance for your help.

That depends largely on your BIOS -- definitely the BIOS on your SCSI host
adapter, and maybe (I'm not really sure) on your motherboard. I know that
I'm able to boot from Linux (or other OSes) on my third physical disk,
using an NCR/Symbios 53c825 host adapter. If you have any OS (FreeBSD,
OS/2, etc.) on your third or fourth physical disk, you'll probably be fine
with Linux. If you have problems, bear in mind that you don't need much
on a Linux install partition; you could put aside a small partition (just
a few megs) for a /boot filesystem, for instance, or use LOADLIN from DOS
to boot Linux, and put everything else on a non-bootable partition.

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