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From: "Mark @ Cross+Road's" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 23:55:45 +0500
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Subject: Re: Loading Linux with DR-DOS Loader?
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


  Does anyone have expierence doing this with System Commander?
     It seems that S-C could give you all 3 choices from the start on one
menue?
         Mark


On 1999-12-03 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >> "Lars-Einar Jansson" <lars_einar DOT jansson AT 2 DOT sbbs DOT se> wrote:
   >> I intend to install RedHat Linux on a machine presently running
   >>Win95  and DR-DOS 7.03. I use DR-DOS Loader to be able to
   >>double-boot between  DR-DOS and Win 95.
   >IIRC, Loader just does some trickery to boot different versions of
   >DOS, so it can't be used to boot a non-DOS operating system such as
   >Linux.
   >> What would be the best way to maintain the option to boot to
   >>Win95 and  DR-DOS when I install Linux in the empty space I have
   >>reserved for it on  my second harddrive?
   >Use LILO, but keep LOADER.
   >Add an entry for DOS and this will boot Loader.
   >This means you must make 2 choices when booting instead of 1, but
   >it works.
   >Alternatively, you can do what I did, and use both drives.
   >Using LILO, it is possible to swap drives C and D so that you can
   >boot drive D (and DOS will still think it's drive C).
   >By doing this, you can put a small DRDOS partition on D and boot it
   >with LILO. Then you can choose between DRDOS, WIN95 and LINUX all
   >from LILO (which means only 1 choice, not 2).
   >If you decide to do this and need more info, feel free to email.
   >doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com is fastest.
   >> Reading the docs accompanying RedHat, it seems to me the best
   >> solution would be to use Loadlin, after first having booted to
   >DR-DOS.
   >That is an alternative, but I prefer LILO myself.
   >> Or should I remove Loader and try LILO instead? Win95 and the
   >>system  files for DR-DOS reside in the first partition of the
   >>first hd, whereas  the rest of the DR-DOS files reside in the
   >>second partiotion of the  first hd.
   >For the LILO trick, keep the win95 files in the first partition of
   >the first drive, and put the DRDOS files in the first partition of
   >the second drive.  It works by remapping the disks at BIOS level
   >(0x80 -> 0x81, 0x81 -> 0x80) so you MUST have them on separate
   >physical disks for the trick to work.
   >> Lars-Einar Jansson
   >> Stockholm, Sweden
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