On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:43:48AM +0000, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:09:00 CST Steve Spears > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Grettings: > > > > Was wondering if anyone had a good site that explains > dual booting Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I have 9.0 installed > and want to dual boot 8.2 that is on a different drive. > Basics: 9.0 on one drive, want to add another drive to > same machine and load 8.2 on the new drive. > > > > Any links or help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve > > > Steve, here's the short version : it's piece of cake. Just > install Mandrake 8.2 upon your new drive. For what I know, > the installation program will automatically detect the > presence of another OS and - along the way - offer you the > choice to boot one or the other as default. In your case - > having two discs - it's not even necessary to re-partition > anything. Eventually you can use the Mandrake Control > Center (as root) to adjust things later on. Most problems > with dual-booting stems from another scenario : installing > a real OS alongside a bogus one. Enjoy ! - But why on > earth do you want two real OS's ? > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark > --
Some PC's (people tell me only older ones) will only boot from the master or slave hard disks on the *first* IDE chain. If this applies to your machine, make sure both your drives are on the first chain. If so, /boot, /sbin and /etc (I think) must be in a patition on a bootable drive. Other things like /usr can, I believe, be anywhere. ANybody know about /dev? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ========================================== > Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 > Registered Linux user #214073 at http://counter.li.org > This is a 100 % Microsoft-free computer. > ========================================== > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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