On Sun, 28 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: > I have 2 hard disk, one dedicated to Windows and the other one, new. Have > not been partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. And, I plan > to install Linux on my new disk. > > I have two queries regarding installation. > > 1) > I plan to disconnect my Windows disk and setup the new disk as 'Master' and > install Linux. I will use a 'boot disk' to load Linux and will not install > LILO. > > Once I install and setup everything under Linux, I will reconnect my Windows > disk (as Master) and connect my Linux disk (as slave). > > My question is this, since I installed Linux w/ the disk as 'Master' and now > that I have reconnected my Windows disk and set Linux disk to 'Slave' would > the 'boot disk' recognize that Linux is now the slave drive (since I > installed everything w/ the disk as 'Master')? Or, I should do some editing > in the 'boot disk'? > > 2) > I will setup the new disk as 'Slave' and when the section mount point and > partitioning comes in Linux installation, I dedicate the whole 2nd disk. > Thus, I will let Mandrake do the partitioning and formatting of the new 2nd > hard disk. > > Again, I will only use 'boot disk' to boot to Linux and will say 'No' in > LILO option. > > Question: In this procedure, should I presume that Linux will not do any > changes or save something in the Windows disk? > > I will start installing once I get this clear. > > Thanks for your help. > > edison > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Hi Edison, I'm no guru, but here goes......... First, I'm not sure why you want to put yourself and your hardware through all this.........you seem to be concerned about messing up your win install? I will just say that I have windows and Mandrake on my 2nd drive which are booted by Lilo, from the first drive, which is dedicated to SuSE6.4, with no probs. The only thing I can see, doing it your way, is that you will have to remember to set the jumpers on your hard drives appropriately and you will probably have to do some editing to /etc/fstab to get Mandrake to boot...I don't know about the boot disk. I would think you could just install your hard drives in the order they will remain and install Mandrake on your new disk (as master, /dev/hdax) and boot windows w/Lilo. (/dev/hdb1). Windows does not need to be on the master disk (is this a philosophical question? ;-) ) I've had no problem with any Linux hurting my win98 install.......only FreeBSD, which has a different partitioning scheme, but that's a different story! Hope I'm not way off base here. Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
