Erylon Hines wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > For specific reasons beyond my control, I still require Windows NT for
> > certain applications.
> > However, I prefer to work in a Linux environment.
> > Do most people have Linux installed on a separate drive or partition?
> > Is there a Linux boot loader that will acknowledge the second drive?
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Roman
> > Registered Linux User #179293
>
> Of course, I have Linux installed on separate partitons--I have
> /,/home,/usr,/var,/tmp--all seperate, plus my NT partition, on a single 9 Gig
> scsi drive. I don't have NT as NTFS, by the way, I'm using FAT for my NT
> partition, though I understand the newer distros can read NTFS, but I also have
> W98 on my network, so FAT is the choice for file sharing. I use the NT Loader
> as my bootloader, and have Linux as the default boot system. How this is done
> is fairly well documented on several websites--I saw one recently on a site with
> the unlikely name of "The Little White Dog" that explained how to use the Win
> 2000 loader to start Linux, but the instructions for NT are exactly the same.
> The only caution is that NT4 must be installed first (kinda like all Windoze).
I have installed WINT4. Next, is Linux 7.2 and/or Red Hat 7
Thanks for responding.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
