Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2886 mails)

["Art Fore" <art_fore@xxxxxxxx>]

PS

I use my second hard drive as a backup for my windows. If I lose the first
hardrive, I can simply reconfigure the master-slave on the drives and have
Windows again. I also use the second harddrive to backup Linux on. I tried
the two drive boot method, but did not have success with it.

Art.

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Fore [mailto:art_fore@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:12 PM
To: SuSe Linux Hulp
Subject: RE: [SLE] Linux partitioning


This is exactly how I have it installed on my machine. I notice you have
Partition Magic 7.0 which means you also have Boot Magic which is also
what
I am using. Here is what I did

Install linux on the upper partition. When It asks where to install the
bootloader, install it on the /boot partition that Linux will create.
(Do
NOT install on the MBR) At this point, you would have to boot into Linux
from the Linux Boot Floppy created during installation.

Then go into Windows and install BootMagic on the FAT32 partion (It has
to
be on a FAT32 or FAT16 partion). Do the BootMagic setup and it will most
likely find the partition already, save the configuration. If it does
not,
select the partition where the boot loader is.

Reboot, and you are there. You will first get the BootMagic selection
screen, when you select the Linux system, you will then get the Lilo or
Grub
bootloader screen.

You will not be able to see the NTFS partition in Linux, unless you
install
another Linux program but it is still not safe to write to, but you can
see
the FAT32 partition. If I want Linux to see something from Windows, I
put it
on the FAT32 partition.

I have SuSE 7.3, but at one time, I had SuSE 7.3 and RedHat 7.2 and
could
select either one from BootMagic.

Art


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Grové Erasmus [mailto:gerasmus@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
  Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:15 AM
  To: SuSe Linux Hulp
  Subject: [SLE] Linux partitioning



  Can Linux filesystems be made at the ‘back’ of a hard disk ?  Would
creation of the filesystem at the back of the hard disk allow Linux to
boot
?

  I have 40Gb hard disk, the first 32GB is allocted to NTFS and FAT32 .
I am
using Partion Magic Pro 7.  This is on my ‘main’ hard disk. I have a 2nd
20Gb hard disk that I use to play with so I won’t mess up my hard disk.




  Grové Erasmus

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