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From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Multi boot
Date: 22 Mar 2005 19:48:06 GMT
Message-ID: <slrnd40tka.t4k.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org> 
References: <d1prge$pc$1@titan.btinternet.com>
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:38:05 -0700, ray staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:26:06 +0000, Mick wrote:
>> I have a dual boot windoze and mandrake................is it possible
>> to install a third os on my external firewire hard drive?
> yes

To expand on what Ray wrote, maybe.  You said "windoze", so you're
probably using an x86.  Unlike newer Macs, x86 machines may or may not
support booting from a Firewire disk.  You'll have to check your
motherboard's manual and/or BIOS Setup program to find out if booting
from Firewire is supported.  Whether your machine supports it or not is
totally dependent on the motherboard, its BIOS, and the Firewire card.

If you can't boot from a Firewire disk, you'll have to have /boot on an
IDE disk, a CD-ROM, or a floppy.  You can keep / and everything else on
the Firewire disk, but you must build your kernel with Firewire support,
SCSI support, and SCSI disk support compiled in (or as modules in an
initial RAM disk, but that's more annoying to set up.)

This is much easier on a newer Mac because of OpenFirmware.  (@#$%ing
i386 boot process is still stuck in ~1985 thanks to backwards
combatability.)

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