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Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive



>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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