Hi. On this computer I have set up 2 harddisk. The first is installed with SuSE linux 7.3, and the second with WIN98SE. The WIN98SE is mounted in a changeable slot, and is taking out when I use the SuSE 7.3 harddisk, that is fixed in the computer. Opposite when I use the WIN98SE I then change the ide cable between them. My question then is if its possible to connect the 2 harddisk on the same ide cable. Of course its possible from the start, but I am a bit confused in how I do the install to get rid of the changing between them the way I have explained. Can some of you help me out of this. Regards, Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk
If I understand the question, you wold like to leave both drives in your system, and boot from either Windows or Linux without removing or disconnecting anything. This is what we call DUAL BOOT. The following DOES NOT include Windows XP or Windows 2000, of which I know very little. There have been lots of messages about this, but here's what you do: Put both drives in the system, configure one as master and one as slave, or put them on 2 different controllers. The one that is configured as master is the one your system will boot from. If you put them on two different controllers, then the BIOS setup should arrange for which will be the bootable drive. Since you have 2 drives, you can put Windows on one, and Linux on the other, which is a nice, clean way to go. Install Windows 98 on the first hard drive, (hda) making that drive bootable, etc. Make sure it runs, and you can boot from it. (Note that you can make either hard drive the larger one, depending on which system you think will have more software on it.) Now, install Linux on the second hard drive (hdb) partitioning as you desire. When the installer asks how to boot the system, tell it to boot from hda, using LILO or whatever you need. (I haven't done this in a while, so the fine-grain details are lost to me, but the directions in the setup routine should make this all clear.) When you're all done, you have both systems installed, and when you boot your computer, it should give you the option to use Windows or Linux. Each system should run fine, and you can access the Windows partitions from Linux, both to read and write. You can access the Linux partitions from Windows to read (as far as I last knew) using a program called Explore2fs, assuming you have used e2fs for your Linux filesystem. If you're using something else, I don't know if you can read the Linux fs from Windows. If I have omitted something, someone will tell us, and I appologize. Good luck. --doug At 16:15 02/16/2002 +0100, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:
Hi.
On this computer I have set up 2 harddisk.
The first is installed with SuSE linux 7.3, and the second with WIN98SE.
The WIN98SE is mounted in a changeable slot, and is taking out when I use the SuSE 7.3 harddisk, that is fixed in the computer.
Opposite when I use the WIN98SE
I then change the ide cable between them.
My question then is if its possible to connect the 2 harddisk on the same ide cable. Of course its possible from the start, but I am a bit confused in how I do the install to get rid of the changing between them the way I have explained.
Can some of you help me out of this. Regards, Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk
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