On Saturday 20 March 2004 1:24 am, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Q: What happens if you have 2 physical hard drives? I'd put XP on one and SuSE on the other, but where does XP wind up? I will be putting up a new machine soon, and would like some advice as to how to do this. (I don't really want XP, but I'm afraid I'm stuck with it. I know that some of my old Windows stuff won't work anymore, and I'll probably have to find a Linux workaround.)
--doug
At 17:56 03/19/2004 +0000, Vince Littler wrote:
I would partition something like this:
40MB Primary partition type ext2 or 3, Linux /boot
40MB Primary partition type FAT32, win xp boot
remainder of the disk is an extended partition with Logical drives
40% of extended partition as logical drive D: type ntfs for Win XP
40% of extended partition as logical drive type reiserfs for Linux /
remainder as swap partition for Linux and odds and ends you might want
Note that this puts Win XP on drive D:, it should install there quite
happily
with 2 HD, I would still use the scheme above, with 2 primaries on the first HD, but devoting the 2nd HD to an extended partition, with logical partition[s] for Linux. Logical partitions for first HD would be for windows. Keeping the separate primaries on the first HD will allow booting supported by absolutely any standard BIOS - which probably will not know how to boot a primary on the second HD. It also means you can always boot either OS natively [ie by the mechanism concieved of by its supplier] by setting the appropriate partition active. Of course, normally you would start the Linux Primary and allow GRUB [or LILO] to chain boot windows if reqd. Vince