Hello, please help I've read all the other messages about Win95/98/NT and Linux together, but non of them answered my question.
My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all as one partition. I wanted to setup Debian Linux on my machine without having to repartition my harddrive and go through all that stuff again, so I added a 814MB harddrive to my system as the slave. I downloaded the Debian Linux install files to my Win95 drive and put them in a directory called C:\Linux. I ran the install.bat and went through the first few steps of the install, Keyboard setup,etc. Then partitioned the second(814MB) physical drive in my harddrive like this: /dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical /dev/hdb5 type 82 Linux 718MB Primary boot my first question is: is this correct? Initialization, Mounting, seem to work fine. When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the master disk? I guess the overall question I have is, Is it possible to add a drive to an existing Win95 system and install Linux on the new drive without erasing the Win95 drive? I would like to setup a dual boot - LILO right? I've read all the other messages on that as well, and it doesn't seem too hard, once i get the rest set up. Thanks a lot for all your help Mike Archer _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
