Hello the Net: I am new to Linux and I need some assistance. What I want to do is to add XP to my computer. I already have SUSE 9.0 pro loaded successfully onto a PATA 80G hard drive and Linux is working. On my INTEL D865PERL mother board with SATA drives, SUSE 9.0 would not recognize the SATA drives so I disconnected the power and serial data cable to the SATA drive and put in a 80G PATA drive and linux loaded fine and plays well. Now it is time to load in XP for a dual boot system. 2 OSs and 2 hard drives. Do you think I can activate the SATA drive, put XP on it and still have the PATA drive for Linux ? Any pitfalls ? Any suggestions ? Stan, Cape Cod zzzzzz
Hi,
Windows tends to make a hash of things when being installed on a
dual boot system. Best way to do it is install windows first then
intsall linux, this will make lilo or grub the bootloader from
which you can load up either system.
Install windows on the SATA drive then install linux on the other
one.
Jeffrey Jones
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:11:30 +0000, Stan
Hello the Net:
I am new to Linux and I need some assistance. What I want to do is to add XP to my computer.
I already have SUSE 9.0 pro loaded successfully onto a PATA 80G hard drive and Linux is working.
On my INTEL D865PERL mother board with SATA drives, SUSE 9.0 would not recognize the SATA drives so I disconnected the power and serial data cable to the SATA drive and put in a 80G PATA drive and linux loaded fine and plays well.
Now it is time to load in XP for a dual boot system. 2 OSs and 2 hard drives.
Do you think I can activate the SATA drive, put XP on it and still have the PATA drive for Linux ?
Any pitfalls ? Any suggestions ?
Stan, Cape Cod
zzzzzz
On Friday 23 April 2004 03:48 pm, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
Hi,
Windows tends to make a hash of things when being installed on a dual boot system. Best way to do it is install windows first then intsall linux, this will make lilo or grub the bootloader from which you can load up either system.
Install windows on the SATA drive then install linux on the other one.
Jeffrey Jones
Perhaps true but all is not lost. If he already has linux installed, Windows (in fine fashion) will only wipe out the boot setup. Which can easily be re-installed and reconfigured. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/23/04 17:27 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Two wrongs are only the beginning."
Some time ago, I asked a similar question, and was advised to disconnect the Linux drives, install Windows XP, and then reconnect the Linux drives and then use either the Linux boot loader or the Windows XP boot manager. (I didn't know it had one, but apparently it does.) On pp. 462 and following, of "Windows XP Annoyances," by Karp, an O'Reilly pub, there is a procedure for installing a UNIX-type system and using the XP boot loader. Windows will not see the Linux-formatted partitions. But apparently the boot manager can. You can also make a partition someplace and format it with FAT32 and access that from either OS. I haven't actually done any of this yet, since I'm waiting to receive SuSE 9.1, which ought to be out in about 2 weeks. My recent thread about ext3 or Reiser touched son some of the points also, such as reading files in one system from the other. Good luck, Stan @ capecod.com. If you do this before I get to it, please let me know what you did and how it worked. --doug At 09:48 PM 4/23/2004 +0200, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
Hi,
Windows tends to make a hash of things when being installed on a dual boot system. Best way to do it is install windows first then intsall linux, this will make lilo or grub the bootloader from which you can load up either system.
Install windows on the SATA drive then install linux on the other one.
Jeffrey Jones
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:11:30 +0000, Stan
wrote: Hello the Net:
I am new to Linux and I need some assistance. What I want to do is to add XP to my computer.
I already have SUSE 9.0 pro loaded successfully onto a PATA 80G hard drive and Linux is working.
On my INTEL D865PERL mother board with SATA drives, SUSE 9.0 would not recognize the SATA drives so I disconnected the power and serial data cable to the SATA drive and put in a 80G PATA drive and linux loaded fine and plays well.
Now it is time to load in XP for a dual boot system. 2 OSs and 2 hard drives.
Do you think I can activate the SATA drive, put XP on it and still have the PATA drive for Linux ?
Any pitfalls ? Any suggestions ?
Stan, Cape Cod
zzzzzz
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Bruce Marshall
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Doug McGarrett
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Jeffrey Jones
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Stan