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I hope these are the right newsgroups to post such a question.
I was wondering if it's possible to have two hard drives with two different
OS,
Windows95 and Linux, on the same computer. If it is possible, how?
Thanks for any help.
Frank C.

Quote:> I hope these are the right newsgroups to post such a question. I was
> wondering if it's possible to have two hard drives with two different
> OS, Windows95 and Linux, on the same computer. If it is possible, how?
> Thanks for any help. Frank C.

Yes, it is possible.  And not extremely difficult, either.
1) Install Windows first.  If you don't, Windows will*up your boot
partition and you won't be able to boot into Linux.
2) If you want to have one OS on each hard drive, make sure all of your
Windows data is on one hard drive and you are good to go for installing
Linux on the other.
3) When you install Linux, it will detect your two drives as hda and hdb
(hda is your primary drive).  Ignore the one with Windows on it and set
up the partitions for Linux on the other.
4) You will want at /boot partition with about 15MB, a swap partition
with about 128MB (or more if you wish) then you will need a / partition
which is your main partition.  It is also helpful to set up a separate
/home partition where all of YOUR files will reside.  This way if you
have to reinstall Linux, you still have all of your files.  Give yourself
a big /home partition if you can - you won't want to run out of room
there.

Hope this helps.  I'm sure there are others out there that have more
info as well.

God bless,
Randy

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Quote:> I hope these are the right newsgroups to post such a question.
> I was wondering if it's possible to have two hard drives with two different
> OS,
> Windows95 and Linux, on the same computer. If it is possible, how?

Yes, it's possible. There are *MANY* ways to configure this, and in fact
most Linux distributions include the means to set this up out of the
box, although it helps to understand some of the issues involved. Check
the Linux HOWTOs at http://www.linuxdoc.org for more information. There
are several devoted to dual-boot configurations. For even more
information, there's my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).

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Install each OS on a different HD. If The hd's are IDE you have to change
the boot letter in the bios. If you've scsi disks and an adaptec host
adapter you can change the boot id in the adapter bios

Quote:> Install each OS on a different HD. If The hd's are IDE you have to change
> the boot letter in the bios. If you've scsi disks and an adaptec host
> adapter you can change the boot id in the adapter bios

This forces you to boot your PC twice if you change the OS.
better use a bootmanage like LILO or the NT(W2K)-bootmanager.
accept MS-DOS all OS will boot from any drive(letter)

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MfG
Thomas Papendieck

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