On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:34:24PM -0700, Paul Marxhausen wrote: > After reading through all the DOSEmu info, I'm sorta-kinda-nearly > grasping this issue, but I still want to ask: > > I'll be converting a utility PC from MS-DOS over to Hamm soon, > and will be running at least one DOS program under DOSEmu. > I've already tested it and it's happy, if slow. > > I thought a handy way and safe way to migrate would be to > take my existing DOS IDE drive (80 Mb), and make it the second > drive in the system. Another 80 Mb drive would become the main > drive with Debian Linux installed. (Yes, it'll fit.) > > I hope to be able to have two options: > 1) have LILO give an option to boot either disk at startup, so > we can have "real" pure MS-DOS if things go awry; and/or > 2) use LREDIR or some other mechanism to have the whole second > drive accessible as the DOSEMu drive. > > Now, am I right . . . is that second drive simply called "/dev/hda2" > in things like the fstab? I mean, when installing Debian, I've > seen it make the main partition hda1 and the swap hda2 or hda6 . . . > will that second drive appear in the Linux partitioning program?
No... you can read the Hard Drive devcice numbers for IDE like: /dev/hda1 a = physocal drive 1 = partition number it goes like this: /dev/hda = primary IDE controler Master drive /dev/hdb = primary IDE controller Slave drive /dev/hdc = secondary (if you have one) Master ..... so you probably want /dev/hdb1 > Am i on the right track here? I suspect this is an obvious > application that's been done often. > Well I have managed to stay wawy from DOS...not much there I want -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
