Your problems are going to be resting on the fact that Microslop insists
that it must reside on a primary partition on the first (ide 0 0) drive.
I believe what you want can be done using either System Commander or
Partition Magic, both of which know how to lie successfully to Windows.
best
rickf
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> I am getting ready to put a new system together and I am going to put
> 2
> harddrives in it. a 6 gig that I will put windows on (for games only)
> and a
> 20 gig drive for my linux system Could someone give me some ideas how
> to do
> this so that linux is on hda and windows is on hdb I know if I hook
> both up
> at same time I have to install windows first and I am thinking that
> will
> make it hda which isn't want I want.
> Any help?
> I believe the Master HD on the Primary IDE will be /dev/hda and the
> Slave HD on the Primary IDE will be /dev/hdb. Then on the Secondary
> IDE, your Master would be /dev/hdc and your Slave would be /dev/hdd,
> assuming you use a cable that has two connections on it on your
> Secondary IDE.
> Maybe you could install Windows when there's just one drive in the
> machine, then add the second drive before adding Linux.
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