At 10:51 p.m. 11/03/2004, you wrote: >I'm flying to Wellington tomorrow to set up linux for my big brother. >He's got XP on hda and has bought a second hd just for linux. > >(Paul, I'll be dropping into e-caf tomorrow to buy distro-of-the-month). > >The plan is to install linux on hdb, then do: >dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 >and then copy linux.bin to C: and add >c:\linux.bin="Linux" >to boot.ini > >I have read somewhere that it doesn't always work when linux is on another >drive, but my brother does not want to repartition his XP drive.
I have a much simpler way which will probably work. Change hard disk disks around so that the first hard disk is the new one which you install Linux on. Set up Linux boot to boot up Windows. Windows will still see the Windows drive as C: but this doesn't matter as Windows doesn't really care if you change where the disk is located. Just make sure you change boot.ini rdisk to 1 or whatever it is now and it'll work fine.
