Re: Need help creating Linux boot disk
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 01/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:53:40 -0500
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:46:33 GMT, Hiawatha Bray
<watha@monitortan.com> wrote:
> I have installed Suse 9 on the D hard drive inside my PC. In order to avoid
> problems with the C drive, that runs Windows XP, I did not install a boot
> loader on my C drive. Instead, I wanted to set up a floppy boot disk that
> would start the process. But when I use the boot disk I created with YaST,
> it boots the C drive, not the D drive. How can I tell it to boot the D
> drive? Thanks.
>
man lilo
man grub
By the way, in Linux there is no "C drive" or "D drive". What Windoze
refers to as C: and D: could be separate drives, or partitions on one
drive, and Windoze won't give letters to drives or partitions that
contain file systems other than FAT or NTFS.
-- Absurd Procrustean Egghead Cornstarch Variant Bill Marcum
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