| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2000 at 11:00:12 |
| Subject: | Re: A QNX Question |
hi,
> My solution to this stuff was to get some hard drive caddies. Maplin had
> some of a discontinued model for £5 each.
>
> Then I got the cheapest hard drive I could find. I take out the
> WindowsNT drive, plug in the new blank drive, and install QNX from the
> CD.
for multiboot ideas, this is always the best way. no HD knows about the
other, so no OS can mess with the other. you also can transport the drives
to other places.
however, when you install QNX, you can tell it to go to a certain partition,
so if you do have one free/spare one, tell QNX to go to that...for example
4th partition on disk 1 (/dev/hda4 in linux terms)
DONT use the QNX booter, keep LILO. then boot into linux, edit the
/etc/lilo.conf file and add this to the end of the file (if /dev/hda4 is
where you put QNX!)
other=/dev/hda4
label=qnx
then run 'lilo'
now, reboot, press TAB at the lilo prompt...and select the qnx option (enter
'qnx').
otherwise, just install it as a file-disk under Windows. then you can easily
boot into it (much like the BeOS method!) and uninstall it by using the
uninstaller (deletes the QNX file and reg/sys entries)
beware, it seems that QNX requires at least 128Mb spare space for the
swap-file itself (well, for a 128Mb system it does - not sure how it ramps
requirements).
alan
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