Re: [SLE] Newbies Installing 9.0

On Saturday 20 March 2004 8:50 am, Johan wrote:

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:24:17 -0500

Doug McGarrett wrote:

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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

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Hi, I have this setup..Win XP on drive 2 and 3 linux flavours on drive one. May I suggest... Put XP on drive 2 with its bootloader intact. Now should drive one pop out..just remove it and XP will boot on 2 without hassle. Install linux on drive one...as many as you like...use grub as bootloader...the last install on drive one will be in charge of the bootloading...if windows drive is in place as hd 2 on install then suse will pick that up and put it in grub. Make sure when configuring bootloading on install that you check that hd1 was selected for MBR install of bootloader. Ok..there is some tricks to correct this...but being new to this let us leave it at this.

This I like. I assume that on drive 1 there are no FAT, VFAT or NTFS partitions and as a consequence, windows still thinks it is on C:? Vince