Linux Installation Question

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Isn't it possible, if there are 2 separate hard drives on a system, to use
F8 or whatever key that computer uses to select a drive to boot to, and
first select the CD-Rom, for the install, and let Fedora partition the
preferred drive, and from that point forward, use the same F-Key to select
which operating system will be run?
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Clower" <steve at steve-audio.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Installation Question


Hi Leslie,
  The Disk Druid utility is run as part of the installation process. I'm not
sure how your BIOS will know that there are two operating systems on your
computer if they are on separate drives, but on my laptop a boot loader
called Grub was automatically installed. While it doesn't speak, I know that
when my machine boots up I'm given two options: boot into Fedora Core or
Windows. So if I want to go into Windows, I just hit the down-arrow and
enter, and Windows boots as usual. However, I don't even know if Fedora
comes with any BRLTTY built into the kernel, so this may or may not help.


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On 4/20/2004 at 2:19 PM Leslie Fairall wrote:

>Actually, the drive will be blank. If I am understanding you correctly,
>Fedora core 1 has a utility that I will need to run once I install it? How
>will I boot my computer from one operating system to the other? Thanks for
>your advice.
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