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Skriven 2006-06-20 22:19:42 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: installing Linux with eCS
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Alan Hess wrote in a message to all:

 AH> A friend sent me CDs of the Ubuntu version of Linux, after I posted
 AH> that I use eCS, but have to boot to Win98SE occasionally to be able
 AH> to view videos and use other browser plugins that aren't available
 AH> for eCS.  He suggested I try Linux, as it has some of those plugins
 AH> available.

 AH> I've never used Linux, and have no clue how it works.  I do have
 AH> space on my drive to install it, and play around with it.  I have a
 AH> 100 Gig drive, with boot partitions for eCS 1.2, eCS 1.1, and
 AH> Win98SE handled by Airboot.  I have a Fat16 partition that is drive
 AH> D for whichever of those I boot to.  The rest of the partitions are
 AH> HPFS - E through J are two gig each (I've kept the configuration I
 AH> used for years, when I had OSes that had limits on drive size they
 AH> could recognize.)  I have two 20 Gig HPFS partitions after those.  

 AH> The rest of the drive (40 Gig) is unformatted at present.  Could I
 AH> install the Linux to that free space?  If so, how would I go about
 AH> it, and can I do it without messing up my eCS and Windows?  Will
 AH> Airboot find it?  Will booting the Linux CD write anything to my
 AH> primary (eCS 1.2) partition, and, if so, can that affect eCS 1.2?

 AH> I have DFSEE 8.02, if that helps.

 AH> Thanks very much for any help.  *adh*

Do you have Ubuntu live CD or Ubuntu Install CD or both? 

If you have the live CD, boot from it and see what it looks and feels like
before investing any time. Personally I love it and am using it as my
workstation linux distribution of choice on several systems. 

As for the install, you will need a partition to install the Ubuntu into. An
extended partition should be just fine. The most important thing is to leave
your boot manager alone and ensure that it installs the Linux boot loader, Grub
for ubuntu, into the same partition as you installed the system. Note that the
partition needs to be flagged as an Ext3 file system and you should probably
create a second partition sized at 1-2 times your RAM and flag it for use as
linux swap space. Just be sure you don't install the boot loader for Linux into
the MBR or you will lose your existing loader. 

It should be possible to have your current boot manager trigger a boot by
running the pseudo mbr loader that you install into your extended partition. If
that fails, there is a boot strap system which I am afraid I've never used and
can't advise you on specifics. 

Have fun,
Dave 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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