--- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello suprmariobro, > > Thursday, November 17, 2005, 10:04:17 PM, you wrote: > > s> I'm new to linux and i'm having trouble installing it.I have two > s> hard drives an internal and external. I want to install linux on my > s> external drive but it won't work.Windows keeps booting on the internal > s> drive. Can anyone help me? > > When you install your Linux distro, there should be an option for > choosing either to install a boot loader (like LILO or GRUB) in the > /MBR or to boot from a floppy disk. > > With two operating systems on a single computer, you need a bootloader > on the first hard drive, so that you can choose which OS to boot. > > If you don't want to install a bootloader, and have a floppy drive, > you can create a floppy boot disk just for Linux, and then when you > want to boot the Linux OS, you can use the floppy, which will boot > before any HD, if you have it set to do that in the BIOS. > > > -wittig > website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ > weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/ > . >where would i download a linux boot disk or a boot loader
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