Fw: [plug] Hard Drives

[John Summerfield]

> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > An alternative that I use, is to use loadlin and boot Linux from "DOS".
> 
> I'm amazed there aren't more people using this :)
> 
> Especially when the reason for Windows is because you have other family
> members that use the computer, a config.sys menu is a much nicer interface
> for them than making them type "win" at the LILO prompt.

Takes longer to get there.

I have a machine that boots OS/2 (two versions), NT 4 and Linux. OS/2's 
bootmanager is definitely the way to go: an almost instantaneous boot - 
bootmanager lives in about 1 Mb of disk space, there'sa menu AND a default 
which (like lilo) has an option to automatically boot something if the 
operator's asleep.


I also have a box that runs Linux (including XFree) and Windows 95. Its 
HDD is about 400 Mb. Linux boots from a floppy, Windows from the HDD.




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John Summerfield
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