Re: Installation to dedicated disk

On Sunday 30 April 2006 19:01, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
It is my intention to create a dual boot environment where Windows
XP resides wholly on the first disk (over several partitions, all
NTFS) and Dapper Drake ubuntu resides wholly on a second disk,
again suitably partitioned.

Previous experience with ubuntu (5.10) was that the installer, or
Lilo would attempt to write to the MBR on the first disk, thus
wrecking the Windows installation - not a bad idea, do I hear:-)

No, it didn't wreck the Windows installation, it just overwrote the
Windows MBR entry. The MBR is not part of the OS and your entire
Windows install would have been unaffected.

All you need do in this case is add an appropriate entry to the
grub/lilo config file which will boot Ubuntu.

I want to ensure that Lilo, or Grub for that matter, installs only
to the second, ubuntu disk and leaves my Windows boot sector alone:
I will use the Windows XP Boot Loader to get to ubuntu.

No, that is not advisable. How will you get the XP boot loader to boot
another OS? I've looked fairly hard for it (but not exhaustively
[Michael, no comments please]) and have not found a chainload
function in the Windows loader

Is it possible for me to be assured that this is possible, and that
the Dapper Drake installation routine will be sufficiently explicit
so as to militate against accidents?

Why not do what all of us have been doing for 10 years?

Install grub/lilo to /dev/hda
Install Windows to /dev/hda1
Install Linux to <wherever>
Confidure grub/lilo - all OSes boot properly

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Alan McKinnon
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