Re: [SLE] Newbies Installing 9.0

From: Vince Littler (suse_at_archipelago.eclipse.co.uk)
Date: 03/20/04

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:27:39 +0000

    On Saturday 20 March 2004 8:50 am, Johan wrote:
    > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:24:17 -0500
    >
    > Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
    > > Q: What happens if you have 2 physical hard drives? I'd put
    > > XP on one and SuSE on the other, but where does XP wind up?
    > > I will be putting up a new machine soon, and would like some
    > > advice as to how to do this. (I don't really want XP, but I'm afraid
    > > I'm stuck with it. I know that some of my old Windows stuff won't work
    > > anymore, and I'll probably have to find a Linux workaround.)
    > >
    > > --doug
    >
    > << snip >
    >
    > Hi,
    > I have this setup..Win XP on drive 2 and 3 linux flavours on drive one.
    > May I suggest...
    > Put XP on drive 2 with its bootloader intact.
    > Now should drive one pop out..just remove it and XP will boot on 2 without
    > hassle. Install linux on drive one...as many as you like...use grub as
    > bootloader...the last install on drive one will be in charge of the
    > bootloading...if windows drive is in place as hd 2 on install then suse
    > will pick that up and put it in grub. Make sure when configuring
    > bootloading on install that you check that hd1 was selected for MBR install
    > of bootloader. Ok..there is some tricks to correct this...but being new to
    > this let us leave it at this.

    This I like. I assume that on drive 1 there are no FAT, VFAT or NTFS
    partitions and as a consequence, windows still thinks it is on C:?

    Vince 

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