>> I have XP on a 20G drive and am about to install Potato on another
40G
>> drive >>
......<snip>.......
>I have a Dual boot testing/XP system at home. both my boot partitions
>are on the first disk. I have grub installed in the boot sector of my
>linux root partition, and use the standard XP/NT MBR, and have the
>active flag set to boot my debian partition first.
Out of interest, what happens if LILO and GRUB conflict, eg. If I were
to (later) install RH 7.2 on the third - removable - HD ?
>Stuffing about with physically isolated disks just makes your life
>harder. Don't do it if you can avoid it. linux-fdisk won't swallow
>your data unless you tell it to. And besides, partition tables exist
>so you don't need to stuff about with multiple drives to have multiple
>operating systems.
Too late. I was advised to do it that way some time ago and have had no
problems in that respect.
>I've been running dual boot systems off of a single drive since I
>started with cramming slackware onto my parent's 210MB disk alongside
>Win3.11 and DOS in '95 - it worked then, and it still works now.
Arghhh .... you're starting to sound like a conservative Archie Bunker.
Cheers,
Adam.
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