Re: Dual Boot; worried about overwriting C: Boot Drive with Win2k
From: TNS (ssj__trunks__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/20/03
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Date: 19 Aug 2003 15:12:30 -0700
pkallis <pkallis@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:<k9q0b.9334$Ih1.3473263@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com>...
> Good morning all,
>
> I've purchased a copy of Redhat 6.2 Deluxe version. I have a Maxtor 160
> GB drive I just installed, with the IDE 133 card that came with it,
> since my BIOS will not support beyond 137 GB. Unfortunately, Maxtor
> supplies software which installs EZ-Drive and DDO on the hard drive,
> which is not compatible with Partition Magic 8.0.
>
> Since I had a spare IBM 46 GB hard drive around, from a warranty
> replacement, I decided to install that as a slave drive, but I have not
> FDISK'd it or formatted it. The system BIOS recognizes it as a slave drive.
>
> Here's the issue:
>
> There are really two BIOS's on the machine; one as the IDE 133 card,
> with the data cable from it to the 160 GB drive and the other data cable
> coming from IDE0 on the motherboard, with the BIOS recognizing it as a
> slave.
>
> Since I have Win2000 installed on the 160 GB drive (master), I am a bit
> apprehensive to install Linux and have its FDISK (or Disk Druid) make
> the partitions and format the drive, for fear it will not recognize the
> 2nd drive and overwrite all my data and Win2000 on the master drive.
>
> As I'm new to Linux (tired of being corraled by MS), I simply want to
> install Linux to play around with it and experiment with applications,
> stability and become generally fluent. That seems to point to the
> workstation version VS server.
>
> However, the documetation says conflicting things about which version to
> install. I also want to dual boot, choosing either win2k or Linux.
>
> Any advice?
>
>
> Thanks...
I was in almost the same situation as you, and Kevin Rose from TechTV
found a very good solution. You can run each OS on it's own drive and
switch back and forth with a toggle switch on the front of your
machine.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3425846,00.html
If you don't want to do it that way, there are links to the boot
managers LILO and Grub in that article.
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