begin: ME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> [I think I properly quoted these sections. Please correct me if I made a
> mistake.)
>
> > begin: Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > > I don't belive windows like's living on a second HD. You could pull it off
> > > with PowerQuest's BootMagic iirc.
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > why not? when i installed linux on my girlfriend's computer, windows was on
> > hda. i placed another drive in the machine on hdc and installed linux on it.
> >
> > works great!
>
> There is at least one issue with this:
> If you set up your primary master (Assuming IDE/ATA) as you Linux disk
> with LILO (or another similar boot manager), and look to have Windows
> (95,98,ME) running on the primary slave, secondary master, or secondary
> slave, you should not create any FAT filesystems on the mail linux boot
> disk after-the-fact. (The boot manager from Norton I think allows you to
> set drive letter as you wish for each OS, but I am not certain on that.)
> If a FAT partition is found during boot that is located on the primary
> master, then the copy of windows installed on another non-primary-master
> may be assigned a non "C:" named later driver letter. This would break
> windows paths and cause problems for a booting windows system that assumed
> it was booting from itself and it was drive "C:"
i didn't know this -- however, i'm a big proponent of keeping different
operating systems on different disks, so i'd have no reason to put a fat fs
on the main disk. :)
this is good info to have for IF's and lert calls, though. thanks!
pete
