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Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive

Subject: Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive
From: gaf at nimbus.microcom.com (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:37:02 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 95 16:26:08 EST." <Pine.3.85.9502271608.A17675-0100000@misty.suffolk.edu>

>I'm considering installing a second Western Digital 210mg hard drive on 
>my Gateway 2000.  If I decide to put Linux on it, can I boot Linux from a 
>floppy disk?  Or will I have to install LILO? 
You can always boot Linux directly from a floppy. Because my family uses
DOS/Windows, I boot linux using the Slackware load linux DOS executable so
that the rest of my family does not use Linux, and LILO is a bit
intimidating for them.

Jerry Feldman

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