On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > > which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make > the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access > linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct?
Actually, Windows needs to be first, or at least it used to. I don't know about XP. I recall that Windows ignores all partitions above the first one it doesn't recognize, so I always put windows on first, create my shared partition and then put linux on the end of the drive. > Secondly...does the drive's position on the ribbon matter? i'm running 2 > things on that ribbon currently, the 20GB drive and my CDRW drive. this is > only the first computer i've owned that i've actually torn apart and put > back together hardware wise, once while trouble shooting for a defective > sound card, the other time doing a case swap. so i'm not all that familiar > with hooking up new hardware. You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc. > i know if i make the 100GB drive the primary, i have to switch the jumper > on the 20GB drive to make it the secondary. > > and a final question.....i'm running an ASUS KV7-RM motherboard that has > all the bios updates done to it, so that's a plus, but will i have to enter > the bios settings once i plug the new drive in? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what your bios settings are now. Some people indicate none in the unused channels to speed up their boots. As long as everything in the bios is set to autodetect, then you shouldn't have to do anything, but if it is not, you may have to go in there and change some settigngs. > as far as how i'm going to work with linux....i havn't decided if i'm giong > to do a fresh install and wipe out the old install or if i'm going to try > to move the current install to the new drive (someone already gave me a > link that explains how to do that). that's something i'll decide for > myself once i get to that point. > You could always try to move it for the learning experience and if you screw up you can still reinstall. As far as partition sizes go, 80 gig is way too much for Linux. You are better off setting up your linux partitions in 10-15GB, and then creating a fat32 partition with the rest to share your data between windows and linux. -- Greg
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