> Forgive me if I am way off on this as I have joined the thread half > way through. > > From what I understand you have an SATA drive with XP on it and a CD > drive attached via IDE. And you want to connect a PATA (ide) hard > drive to the machine to put Ubuntu on as dual boot?
No,it is the other way round, IDE with XP ATA with Ubuntu. > > If that is the case you will probably have to change some of the > jumpers on the ide devices themselves. You should set the jumpers on > the hard drive (ide) to master, and the jumpers on the CD drive to > slave. Then connect the ide hard drove to the first connection on the > cable and the CD drive to the second connection point. Which connection do you mean by first, the one nearest the CD drive or nearest to the mother board? > > When you then boot the machine, enter the BIOS (del, F2 or whatever > your machine needs) and make sure that the devices are being > recognised correctly as master and slave. Then proceed with the > installation as described by others in the thread. That is what I hope to do. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
