Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)
At 10:08 AM -0700 5/17/2001, Jim Darrough wrote:
I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine, but want to experiment with Debian without modifying my Windows partitions/drives. The machine will have three hard drives and a Memorex 2x CDRW drive (I'd like to have another CDR drive, but no ide capability left if I add the new hard drive).
Why don't you make the linux hd the bootable one, then make the bootloader choose
windows as the default OS to run. You can then access your linux at startup whenever
you want.
Install the HD and boot off of the Debian CD-ROM.
Make sure you know which HD is which. You don't want to initialize the wrong one!
When the Debian install asks how you want to boot. Make sure to select your Debian HD
as the bootable one and write the bootloader to the MBR of THAT drive. You can also
make a boot floppy at this time, just in case.
Reboot.
Play with your bios to make your Debian HD the first bootable one.
Reboot.
Debian will install and configure the base system.
At the end, you can log in as root and edit your /etc/lilo.conf file.
After that, run the program lilo:
#/sbin/lilo
Added linux (alias 1)
Added win (alias 2) *
Added old (alias 3)
Added ext2 (alias 4)
The little "*" denotes the default boot setting.
I've attached my lilo.conf which works on my system. Default is Windows and I just
have to hit "1" or type "linux" at the "boot:" prompt to get linux. Check out the drive mappings "map x to x" and the section starting with "other=".
Hope that helps, Attachment:
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Anthony Lau
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