Sort of thinking about making a dual boot system. I use scsi drives. I was woundering if M$ could be installed on the second drive or so. My first drive has SuSE 7 on it and i don't want to buy another drive as for that chain. I just need windows for 3 programs at this time. This is just a thought. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------*
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Chris Large wrote:
Sort of thinking about making a dual boot system. I use scsi drives. I was woundering if M$ could be installed on the second drive or so. My first drive has SuSE 7 on it and i don't want to buy another drive as for that chain.
For Windows 95/98/Me I believe it needs to be installed on whichever drive is booted from. For NT/2000 you need at least a small partition to hold boot.ini, the ntloader, etc on whichever drive is booted from. Greg
Chris Large wrote:
Sort of thinking about making a dual boot system. I use scsi drives. I was woundering if M$ could be installed on the second drive or so. My first drive has SuSE 7 on it and i don't want to buy another drive as for that chain.
I just need windows for 3 programs at this time. This is just a thought.
No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. Nevada Take Control of your Life Cut up your Credit Cards in Little Bitty Pieces
No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components
nevada wrote: that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction. Damon Register
Damon Register wrote:
No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components
nevada wrote: that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction.
I seem to remember something similar from back in those far gone days when I used Windows... These components that 'must' be on the first drive only need to be there because Microsoft says so, not for any technical reasons, IMHO. My advice would be to temporarily unplug your first drive, to convince Windows that it's getting pride of place on the first drive, and then plug the drive with your real OS back in when the install is finished. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, although I don't have the details of your setup :/ Good luck, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction.
I seem to remember something similar from back in those far gone days when I used Windows... These components that 'must' be on the first drive only need to be there because Microsoft says so, not for any technical reasons, IMHO. My advice would be to temporarily unplug your first drive, to convince Windows that it's getting pride of place on the first drive, and then plug the drive with your real OS back in when the install is finished. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, although I don't have the details of your setup :/
This is sort of where my problem comes from. I have a scsi system and my first drive is on the wide part of the controller card and all the rest of the drives are on the narrow part and for some reason this sytem will only boot off the narrow side and i don't want to buy a new drive for that when i have a spare narrow drive sitting there. I might be able to do the ide thing as i think my bios can bypass booting off the ide drive. Only reason for this doing this stupid thing is that my win machine is very outdated a slow where the SuSE machine is far better by a long shot. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------*
Chris Large wrote:
No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction.
I seem to remember something similar from back in those far gone days when I used Windows... These components that 'must' be on the first drive only need to be there because Microsoft says so, not for any technical reasons, IMHO. My advice would be to temporarily unplug your first drive, to convince Windows that it's getting pride of place on the first drive, and then plug the drive with your real OS back in when the install is finished. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, although I don't have the details of your setup :/
This is sort of where my problem comes from. I have a scsi system and my first drive is on the wide part of the controller card and all the rest of the drives are on the narrow part and for some reason this sytem will only boot off the narrow side and i don't want to buy a new drive for that when i have a spare narrow drive sitting there.
I might be able to do the ide thing as i think my bios can bypass booting off the ide drive.
Only reason for this doing this stupid thing is that my win machine is very outdated a slow where the SuSE machine is far better by a long shot.
My configuration is linux on ide0 and win is on scsi id=0. I always have to remove ide0 to install win on the scsi. After install it's ok. Your scsi card must have a bios installed for id=0 for install only. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Damon Register wrote:
I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction.
Windows will always boot off of IDE1-Master or the booting SCSI drive. Unless you are using a boot manager that has an OS installation feature (i.e., System Commander), the best approach is to create a 500MB DOS partition on the first drive, and a Windows partition on the second drive. The Windows installer will have drive C: to dump stuff into, and the \Windows directory will be on the second hard drive. Personally, I keep my OSes on seperate drives to avoid this hassle. Christopher Reimer
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, there was an ion storm which produces this message from Damon Register * nevada wrote: * > No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos * > doesn't * > care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive * > letter where * > you want to install it when it asks you. * I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install * windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory * can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components * that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem * when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome * correction. * * Damon Register You are correct. Even the much ballyhooed Windows 2000 pro wont install on a partition or drive that isn't the C:\ if there is any OS except a M$ product. It just will not install. Not 100% certain about NT4 , but I'm inclined to think it will install some of itself onto the C:\ no matter where it goes.
On 3 Jan 2001, at 5:56, jfweber wrote:
You are correct. Even the much ballyhooed Windows 2000 pro wont install on a partition or drive that isn't the C:\ if there is any OS except a M$ product. It just will not install. Not 100% certain about NT4 , but I'm inclined to think it will install some of itself onto the C:\ no matter where it goes.
NT 4 will install onto any drive, as long as the primary partition is M$. In fact, the best way, if there is one, to install it is to load M$- DOS on a 125MB C: drive and then put the rest in NTFS. One evening, after a coupla beers, I pulled out the Linux fdisk program, put a Windows 95 OSR 1 partition on the slave IDE drive, made it active, then installed DOS on it. Then I threw a minimal linux install on the master drive. After this, I went and tried to install Windoze 95 on the slave drive, and it hosed my linux install completely. I still don't know if it was me on Windoze, though, as I had a coupla more beers when I was doing the installs. ;) Cheers, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin
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