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onestep · 11-29-2002, 03:25 AM

Esmith was trying to take over & so prevented the win drives from starting. The 3rd drive is now refitted & formatted to basic, ntfs (by xp). It is set as slave on the same cable as the dvdrom (jumpered as master). With the 1st drive listed as drive 0, the 3rd drive appears in comp management as disc 2 - basic. With the dramas I've had with mdk 9 , the unix.com forum suggests the cd's I have may be lacking something that the boxed set includes - and is needed for multiboooting (?). Mdk 7.2 will load (but I only have 1 of 2 cd's) but mdk 9 will not. Esmith is not really suitable for my application and I'm already 1300mb over for the month. I will download rdh 8.2 (or 3) in a couple of days & post back the results of the attempted installation. In the meantime, if anyone has any further thoughts, please feel free to post them. Remember, I'm barely off my learner plates - people like you guys help people like me get endorsements to our computer licences. Thanks for all comments to date. I'll go back to my Linux ebooks while I sit out the wait for the new download traffic month.

11-29-2002, 03:25 AM	#11
onestep Member (3 bit) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 6	multibooting win & Linux Esmith was trying to take over & so prevented the win drives from starting. The 3rd drive is now refitted & formatted to basic, ntfs (by xp). It is set as slave on the same cable as the dvdrom (jumpered as master). With the 1st drive listed as drive 0, the 3rd drive appears in comp management as disc 2 - basic. With the dramas I've had with mdk 9 , the unix.com forum suggests the cd's I have may be lacking something that the boxed set includes - and is needed for multiboooting (?). Mdk 7.2 will load (but I only have 1 of 2 cd's) but mdk 9 will not. Esmith is not really suitable for my application and I'm already 1300mb over for the month. I will download rdh 8.2 (or 3) in a couple of days & post back the results of the attempted installation. In the meantime, if anyone has any further thoughts, please feel free to post them. Remember, I'm barely off my learner plates - people like you guys help people like me get endorsements to our computer licences. Thanks for all comments to date. I'll go back to my Linux ebooks while I sit out the wait for the new download traffic month.