Re: Installing 9.1 to second HD and other questions

From: B Gruff (bbgruff_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:06:02 +0100

Tim Eastman wrote:

> Hi Gang.
>
> Need to rebuild my machine and configure it dual boot since our
> college student is required to run programs in XP (3D Studio Max,
> etc).

Rebuild? Re-configure slightly?:-)
 
> The question is this. Can I install my SuSE 9.1 to a slave HD and
> have XP on the "master" HD? It's a ASUS a7v266 MBoard and I can make
> sure the LBA is enabled in the Bios. (I built it in March 2002)

Of course! - or the 3rd or the 4th. etc.....
As usual, install Windows first (for simplicity), then install the
Operating System.....
 
> Would GRUB be able to point booting to the second HD?

Yes, of course.... or the 3rd or 4th......
 
> Another question then; if I buy a wazoo huge HD and partition for
> both XP
> and SuSE 9.1 will SuSE 9.1 boot past the 1024 cyl "barrier"? That
> seemed to have been a problem in the past threads. I'd be looking at
> a 120 gig plus HD if I went that route.

My 160GB seems fine .... unless I'm missing something....
If you are buying a second drive, perhaps better to have Windows on
one drive, and the Operating System on the other.....
 
> One last question; Is SuSE 9.1 able to read and write an NTFS
> partition or will I have to create my XP partition as Fat32?

Yes, no, no, in that order!

It will read with no problems.
It MIGHT write, but it's a bit iffy on NTFS - don't!
Keep the XP partition as NTFS by all means, but create ANOTHER FAT32
from/to which both OSs can read/write.

Bill

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