Re: [ILUG] OS to choose in the system BIOS...

From: Stephen Shirley (diamond at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Fri 07 Sep 2001 - 10:45:44 IST

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Wynne, Conor wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On one of my wee systems, I noticed a BIOS option for either
> 1. DOS
> 2. Other.
>
> What should one choose during installation of linux?
>
> I normally leave this as DOS, but does anyone know if choosing "other" would
> be more appropriate for linux. It seems that the block sizes are different
> in this "other" config.
>
AFAIR the Other setting is for things like SCO. You should defenitely
leave it at Dos for linux - that's what it expects.

Steve

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