Re: Can I install linux on a seperate HDD from within Windows, not boot linux from within windows

From: H-Man (I-Hate_at_Spam.sucks)
Date: 10/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:13:23 -0600

On 26 Oct 2005 07:02:02 -0700, jorgenoctem wrote:

> Here's what I want to do, I'm just getting into linux and want to try
> out some new distros until I find one that I like. I don't want to have
> to burn a cd every time I want to try a new distro and was wondering if
> I can install linux on a seperate hard drive from within windows. I do
> not plan on booting linux from within windows, just install it from
> within windows, onto a second hard drive I have installed on this
> machine.
>
> Thank you in advance for you help,
> Justin

There's something in your request that I can't seem to get my mid around.
If you have no plans to boot to linux from windows, why then do you need to
install it from within windows? If Windows is on an NTFS partition, create
a seperate FAT32 partition and install your new distro from there. AFAIK,
there is no good way to do a full hard drive installation of any OS from
within Windows. The only way to install from within Windows that I know of
would require the use of an emmulator like VMWare, VirtualPC, Bochs, QEMU,
XEN. There may be others but these are the ones I've seen. 

-- 
HK

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