Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2634 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 08:36, JB wrote:
>   Hiya gang,
>
>   SuSE 9.3 is the only OS I have on my system. I have two hdd's though.
>
>   I (unfortunately) need to install W98 on the second (blank/empty spare)
> hdd.
>
>   If I open the case and remove the main hdd from the cabling, so that if
> the system's restarted all the bios will see is one hdd, the 'spare', and
> install the W98 on that, then once it's all done hook my main hdd back up
> and start the system, will I be able to just go into YaST and have it find
> the new OS and add it to fstab?
>
>   Is there an easier way than the above?
>
>   Thanks for any suggestions.
>
/snip/

You'll have to reset the drive to be Master, or you won't be able to access 
it.  This is done on all the drives I've seen, by changing little jumper 
blocks. Then, after you install 98 (why not XP, it runs a lot better, unless 
you have really limited CPU and memory--it's about as solid as Linux!) then 
you will have to reset the drive to Slave, and put the main drive back in, 
and teach Grub or LILO about the new OS.  It might be a little more 
complicated than that--I had XP as the main OS and SuSE 10.0 as the
OS on the second drive, and when I had trouble with the second drive, and
tried to boot off the "C drive" it wouldn't--some of Grub was on the 
second drive, which was not accessible.  I think this is a bug, but I don't
know.  Anyway, this is the basic protocol.

--doug  
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