On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:51, Yuri de Groot wrote: > I'm flying to Wellington tomorrow to set up linux for my big brother. > He's got XP on hda and has bought a second hd just for linux. > > (Paul, I'll be dropping into e-caf tomorrow to buy distro-of-the-month). > > The plan is to install linux on hdb, then do: > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 > and then copy linux.bin to C: and add > c:\linux.bin="Linux" > to boot.ini >
whats wrong with: 1. booting from the cd to install the os on hdb 2. grub or lilo for booting from then on. > I have read somewhere that it doesn't always work when linux is on another > drive, but my brother does not want to repartition his XP drive. > > Has anyone done what I've described above and does it actually work? > I want to give my brother his money's worth (he's paid for my flight to > Wellington and he's gone and bought another hdd just for this project). > > I'm also turning an older PC into an IPCop box (dial-up) for him. He's gone > for connecting the IPCop and the new PC via cross-over rather than a > network switch, even though I advised him to buy a switch (I guess he's > bought too much already - might buy him a switch for his birthday). > > Yuri > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To remove yourself from this list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
