On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:54:42 +1200, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:07, Nick Rout wrote: > > ummm won't that backup the partition table too? > Um, yes it would. > > I'd suggest installing linux onto a second drive, > and not touch the Windows partition at all, particularly if the > user is dependent on the machine for his daily bread and understandably > paranoid. Low Gb disks are fine for trying out linux and available pretty > cheaply. > > The http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php link is particularly relevant. > > IIRC, Yuri did something very similar for a relative and posted a report to > the list, but unfortunately I cannot find the reference in the archive.
Yes, I set it up for my brother. installed mdk 9.2. The second harddirve needs to be jumpered slave if attached to the same ribbon cable as the main drive, or jumpered master if on a separate ribbon cable. If slave on main ribbon, the target for install will be /dev/hdb or just hdb. If master on second ribbon cable, then install on /dev/hdc or hdc. (sorry if this is old hat - can't assume starting point) Most distros will add the windows partition to LILO or Grub automagically. If you have the option, you can tell the distro installer to install LILO on the second disk (hdb or hdc). You can copy the boot record of hdb to floppy: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 then reboot to windows, COPY A:\linux.bin C:\ and add an entry for linux to C:\BOOT.INI that runs C:\linux.bin. This will use the windows boot menu to boot linux. YMMV - worked for me. Yuri
