[wplug] dual boot problems

[mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:03:57AM -0700, Abhishek Soni wrote:
> 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.

GRUB sounds like your best bet, especially with the second hard drive.

> 
> 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.

Yes, you can either repartition it or use Linux's VFAT support.  But that's
only if you trust Windows to keep good care of it's file systems.  I don't.

> 
> 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??

http://www.linmodems.org/

> 
> thanks ,
> abhi
> 
> 
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