I actually just went through this whole process. I had one disk partitioned for Windows 95 and Linux. Luckily for me I have two embedded IDE controllers on my motherboard, so I just made the new disk a master. I had to go through hell though, since I wanted the new one to be my boot drive; I first had to install it as the D: drive, copy all I needed to it from my old drive, which includes backing what linux stuff I wanted to keep to the msdos formatted new disk. Then I had to set the new disk as the boot disk, which meant switching the controllers. Booting off it, reinstalling linux to the old disk. ON an on. I do recommend that you partition your msdos/windows disk such that you can have your linux swap space there. It is best to keep the swap space separate from your root drive, especially if you have two controllers. Unfortunately, or fortunately, in my case I have a great drive .. Western Digital 1.6G, it tends to go into energy saver mode when the swap isn't being used, so sometimes there is a delay when I need to use swap space.
Have Fun! --Michael %% Chris Fearnley writes: cf> Ian Comley writes: >> I am planning to install a second hard disk on my machine and >> install Linux on that. I wondered if some bored individuals could >> answer a couple of simple questions: >> >> Is installing a second hard drive easy - ie. do I just need to buy >> a new drive and no other hardware, or is there something else >> involved? cf> I assume your talking about IDE drives. Well you need an IDE cable cf> with 2 connectors obviously, and the drive you buy needs to be cf> able to be master or slave to the other drive, this doesn't always cf> work with some drives. IDE is such a wonderful "standard" ain't it cf> ;) cf> Do NOT install a Conner disk as slave. Last time one of my cf> clients did that it cost him BIG time. [I never saw such bizarre cf> filesystem corruption -- and neither did e2fsck :( ] cf> -- Christopher J. Fearnley | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS cf> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) cf> http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Design Science Revolutionary cf> ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be cf> Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Linux Advocate cf> -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Michael Karafotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member, Pencom Systems Administration On-Site: Fidelity FMR Corp http://www.ari.net/webworks/karafotis/ (617) 563-3692 "The more I look at it, the more I like it ............. I do think its good!"
