Fw: [plug] Hard Drives

Daniel Pearson abandonware at iname.com
Sat Jun 26 11:23:22 WST 1999


So I can make some kind of bootdisk? What will happen is windows will always
boot up, and then if I want to boot Linux I put in this disk and Linux will
boot?

Cheers
Daniel Pearson
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Duff <peregrin at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [plug] Hard Drives


>
>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Daniel Pearson wrote:
>
> > So how would I be able to load Linux? Cause I want to have it so that
> > windows loads up every boot, but if I want to get into Linux how would
I go
> > about it?
> >
>
>  I do "make zdisk". This will put the kernel on floppy as well as leave a
> file in arch/i386/boot called zdisk. Then when you want Linux just pop in
> your floppy. Also handy to have when you testing new kernels, or stuff up
> your system.
>
> Nigel.
>
>
>



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