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Hello all,

        I have a generic P75 box with a single WD 850 Mb IDE drive
that will soon be converted from DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 to W95. Here is my
Linux question:

I want to get a second HD (perhaps a Seagate 850 Mb IDE) and install
Red Hat 4.1 on this disk. My goal is to have a Linux HD that W95 will
not even be aware of!!!! I want two totally separate file systems on
these separate disks.

The RH manual seems to be vague on this point, so I was wondering how
best to proceed, assuming that I am starting with a W95 machine and a
second HD, still in the box.

I've read some of the material in
 http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/ on multiple disks,
but this is TOO BROAD a document for my question.  (I don't WANT to
know all that stuff, which is more appropriate to multiple disk
servers, etc.)

Is it as simple as installing LILO and making a few settings?

Any help is appreciated, but if you post, could you email me as well?

Thanks in advance,
Derrick

Hullo,
I'm pretty sure the question was off-topic, but nay...

Ok, you install linux on your second hard drive, and boot it up only
with a dikette or with loadlin (within Dos).
No risk at all for your MS systems, and I use it although I don't boot
up win95 anymore..

More information on the Linux+Win95(+...) mini Howtos.

Quote:>Hello all,
>I want to get a second HD (perhaps a Seagate 850 Mb IDE) and install
>Red Hat 4.1 on this disk. My goal is to have a Linux HD that W95 will
>not even be aware of!!!! I

If you want to have Linux invisible to Win95, make sure you use a
Linux native disk format like e2fs (2nd extended file system) Win95
will not recognize it and should leave it alone.

TO be really sure ...
 If your CMOS allows you to specify from which drive to boot, you can
setup your second drive to boot independent of WIn95. The only
drawback is you have to monkey with your CMOS everytime you want to
boot Linux.

One last option,
If you want real convenience, reformat your drive and install System
Commander, it allows many Operating Systems to live in 'peace and
harmony' on your system - and allows you to select which system to
boot.

Hope this helps,
Chuck

An easy way to do it is:

install linux on 2nd hd using linux-native fs.
make a bootfloppy with lilo and your kernel.
for w95 boot hd, for linux boot floppy

You can have lilo do a dual-boot--I haven't tried installing lilo on
the w95 disk yet but I know it works on w3x

Mr. Thomas J. Danek wrote in article

Quote:>install linux on 2nd hd using linux-native fs.
>make a bootfloppy with lilo and your kernel.
>for w95 boot hd, for linux boot floppy
>You can have lilo do a dual-boot--I haven't tried installing lilo on
>the w95 disk yet but I know it works on w3x

Lilo manages this perfectly happily, the only problem I had was
installing DOS onto the second drive -- in the end I just took out
hda, dos then installed fine. Interestingly enough, when I boot Win95
off lilo it uses hda4 as C: and hdb1 as D:, whereas when I boot DOS
off lilo it uses hdb1 as C: and hda4 as D:. Very weird :)

Geoff