Hi Charles and Tom:
Thanks for your replies. Really appreciated your help clearing up things.
Say, that's a neat idea..Windows on the 'slave' drive :) just because its
windows doesn't mean it has to be the 'Master' ;>
edison
>From: TRBishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Edison Gica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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>Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Installation (need advice)
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:40:33 -0500
>
>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
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>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
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