zipspeak on my C drive

[Gene Collins]

If I understand you correctly, and you want to make Linux its own
bootable partition, then you should make Linux the second partition, and
DOS the first partition.  DOS/Windows does not like being on anything
but the first partition.

Gene

>Any file named with more than 8 letters will have goofy names when seen
>from dos. As for moving the dos directory, if you use something called
>lilo, for linux loader, you could set it up to boot drive d as dos and c as
>linux, as long as they're on different hard drives. You're boot prompt
>would let you choose from /dev/hda1 for linux and /dev/hdb1 for dos if
>things worked right. There's a lilo mini howto at www.linuxdoc.org. There's
>a liloconfig in slackware, but don't count on it, as I trashed my windows
>system when I tried to make a boot floppy with it. I think what it did was
>put the loader on the superblock, where fdisk /mbr wouldn't fix it. I
>wouldn't advise setting it up until you get linux on it's own partition or
>drive, as zipspeak won't allow windows and linux to dual boot from the same
>partition.
>At 06:43 PM 6/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>I have been using zipspeak on my D drive.  Eventually I want to go to a
>>full linux distribution but have some things to do before that can
>>happen.  Meanwhile, as my C drive is larger than my D drive, I would like
>>to delete my present version, mmove the files on my C drive to D, and
>>install zipspeak on my c drive.  I am using DOS.  I know I will have to
>>leave the DOS hidden files, command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat on
>>my C drive.  Can I move the actual DOS directory to my D drive as long as
>>I change the paths in my config.sys and autoexec.bat files?Also, do I have
>>to copy files I want to save from my present zipspeak to a floppy using
>>linux or can I use the DOS copy command?--Cheryl
>>
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