Bob,
This might seem like a unsophisticated, cluncky work-around, but you could
always buy two or three old, very small 3 1/2" hard drives at a local
computer show, or on the Internet for that matter, and use a removable hard
drive tray to switch boot drives.
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From: Bob Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] STN and Hard Drive Install - you need to know
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:43:13 -0700, you wrote:
Ummm - I tried it last night and unfortunatly it is not the whole
story :-(
The hard drive IS IDE and it IS the master on the primary controller.
Copying all the files to the FIRST partition on the disk (yes, I
checked it with FDISK) and ran "syslinux c:" and I still get the same
problem :-(
The ONLY way to get this to work is to do a FDISK /MBR and then use
FDISK again to create a single primary DOS partition and make it
active (ie kill all partition info and rewrite the master boot
sector).
However, since the whole idea is to have a number of bootable
partitions on the hard disk for different ISP's and configurations
its not really the answer for me.
No - I know I dont need to re-boot often, and Yes - booting from a
floppy is usable (if slow). But this is for a school and diskettes
get lost/borrowed/dirty and if I am going to set it up for them I dont
want to have to keep going in there to re-create disks.
Its just a shame that it cant be installed on several partitions and
use Boot Manager to choose which one - easiest solution for the
teacher and for me and they cant get lost.
>>
>> Bob,
>>
>> Glad to help! (I figured I was not the ONLY one with this problem!!)
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Bob Selby wrote:
>> > On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:23:00 -0700, you wrote:
>> >
>> > Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! (The programmers anthem!!) that
>> > explains ALL !!
>> >
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