[wplug] dual boot problems

[Luquilla Hughes]

My understanding below, corrections appreciated, flames can be directed to 
/dev/null.

1. Yes it would mean installing a boot loader like lilo onto the harddisk. 
GRUB, another boot loader, is supposed to be very good also. try either man 
Linux or http://www.google.com/search?q=grub

2. Yes you can use the scsi hard disks space on Linux, assuming your scsi 
card is supported. You would need to either partition off space on the 
windows machine or simply mount the drive.(note: ext2 will provide better 
performance than fatXX, as I understand it). Try; man mount
To have it done at boot up you will want to modify the etc/fstab file and 
IIRC there is a tool for that but I can't remember what it is called off the 
top of my head...been a while since I used redhat.
<2cents> You would be better to install windows on the IDE drive if you use 
it very little and Linux on the SCSI, if supported, as the performance of 
SCSI is supposed to be superior to IDE.</2cents>

3. Linmodems are cheaper but several people are working on making them 
compatible with Linux, even though taking cycles from the cpu to do meanial 
tasks is a bad idea. Never tried it but start with this;
http://www.google.com/search?q=linmodem

Does anybody know why the reply to was set dirrectly for him and not wplug?


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>From: Abhishek Soni <soni_abhishek at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: soni_abhishek at yahoo.com
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] dual boot problems
>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 06:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I have some problems regarding my home computer;
>it has two hard disks, a SCSI (2.1 GB) and an IDE (2.1
>GB). initially i just had the SCSI hard disk and WIN98
>on it.
>recently i added the other IDE disk and loaded Red Hat
>7.1 on it but in order to use Linux i have to boot it
>off a floppy disk.
>
>also, i have a win modem CREATIVE model# DI5630-5, so
>i cannot use that with LINUX, so i intend keeping both
>the operating systems.
>
>my questions are,
>
>1. can i boot into either of the operating systems
>without a boot floppy.
>
>2. i don't intend using windows for anything other
>than the fact that i am stuck with a WINMODEM, so can
>i use space on this hard disk for LINUX as well.
>
>3. the best alternative would be if i could use this
>modem itself, so does someone know a way to get this
>particular modem work with LINUX??
>
>thanks ,
>abhi
>
>
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