Grant Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi > Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole > thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze > over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of > different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy > said you can, with Partition Magic. Any ideas? > > Fourth, if I CAN'T do #3 is it easy/possible to setup a new hard > drive and boot between the two? >
Yes you can do it and preserve your current system. I have done it myself many times with PM. Use the instructions I gave with PM, or VMware (http://www.wmware.com) can definetly handle this. That what's VMware is used for actually. As for a 2nd HDD, if you decide to go this way, just Load your Linux CD (Make sure that you are booting from CDROM first in BIOS), and then choose to intall in on drive hdb (meaning 2nd drive) and not hda . Then with Boot Magic installed on the Master Boot Record of your 1st HDD, load Linux in there, and it should be able to boot Linux from your 2nd HDD. I have actually had windows 2000 installed on 1st HDD, and Windows 98 installed on 2nd HDD, and was easily booting Windows 98 on the 2nd HDD with Boot Magic installed on the first HDD. All you are left is work out what's more cost effective for you. Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
