Re: Installing SUSE to Slave HDD

From: Jacob Tranholm (jacob_tranholm_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:22:42 +0200

Larry Roberts skrev:
>
> What I'd like is to have a setup where all Linux files are
> installed to the slave drive. The boot files be placed on a floppy, so
> when I want to load Linux, I just pop the floppy in, and reboot out of
> WinME. I don't want any part of Linux on the primary HDD.
> I'm a very big noob to Linux. In the installtion configuration
> menu for the boot loader, there is an option to place the boot loader
> onto a floppy. Is there any other options that need to be changed to
> acomplish what I want?

No... You don't have to do anything but let the installation create the
boot floppy-disk. In Windows ME I think the easiest way to restore the
original MBR (if it has already been changed) is by the command 'fdisk
/mbr' in DOS-mode. - You could also check whether your computer is able
to boot from the slave-drive, this is set up in BIOS and some computers
can, some cannot. - Then you can install the MBR without changing
anything at all on your Windows harddisk.

As far as I have heard the only major problem with the SuSE installation
has been when you try to resize a NTFS-partition, but I have not yet
heard anything about lost data or problems on FAT32-partitions.
Personally I have never tried to resize NTFS or FAT32-partitions under
Linux. - These filesystems belong to Windows and it is better to resize
them under Windows. Similarly I would never change the size of
Linux-partitions under Windows (even though it is possible with
Partition Magic (at least for ext2, ext3 and swap)).

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