Dear Debian folks, I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box..... I have 8GB of RAM on the machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain things I do......
I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one with Debian on it. My plan is to install Windows on the new drive...... If you installed Windows on the new drive and then installed Debian grub would see the Windows on the other drive and create a boot option for you to fire it up if you wanted to when you boot the PC up..... But if you installed debian first as I have on one disk and then add Windows on the other one then if you boot up the machine it will load Windows and you won't get a choice to fire up Linux (at least I don't expect it). I had a piece of software for Windows called Partition Magic which I seem to have lost. If I still had it I could install it on Windows (after installed that OS) and it would see the Linux on the other drive....... I could set up its bootloading program and then when the machine rebooted it would give me choice to boot either Linux or the Windows...... That would be a way to load Linux first and Windows second on two separate drives and still be able to get a choice to load either OS on boot up of the PC...... Except of course there would be other ways because I have sent you this email and if you were kind you might point out some of them. I could cheat and install the Windows and then reinstall Debian and grub would see it but I don't want to do that. I want to keep the old installation. How would you modify grub to see a Windows OS that hasn't been installed yet? Could I use the installer in Debian to make Windows partition on the new drive and then install the Windows on it and then grub would see it and boot up seeing both OSes? It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to choice of booting it when you boot up the PC...... Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinudw4mndadtr7xvplyp9=findx_vizzhex=...@mail.gmail.com