The bottom line is that Linux will install where you put it. As long as GRUB is installed in the first drive, you could use the second drive after you resize the Windows D. Or, you could simply use tell fedora to use the same partitions you used for OpenSuSE. I have found that the Fedora disk management software is a bit less intuitive than the SuSE, but that is also because I am more familiar with YaST.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Bayard Coolidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been around Linux a while, but my experience with laptops is minimal. > > I bought a laptop recently with two SATA hardrives. The major OEM > that made the laptop very generously made the second drive "D:", > and the BIOS does NOT support booting off of the second hard drive, only off > of the first drive, or a USB drive, or the built-in DVD drive. Laptop > has an AMD64 X2 Turion CPU, and an NVIDIA graphics chip set. > > I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 after a bit of fussing back and forth between > it and FC6. Somewhere along the line, one of the two managed to > overwrite the MS boot block and installed Grub on the bootblock of the > primary drive. I do not know offhand if /boot/backup_mbr is really the > Microsquish boot block or a duplicate openSuSE bootblock or an FC6 > bootblock because I was so careless with my testing. (I was trying to > install the system such that /boot was on a flash drive, so as not to > perturb the boot block on the "primary"/"C"/Windows drive - I failed). > > So, the upshot is, I have a nicely working openSuSE installation, and > I can also boot Windows whenever I want to (which is rare). I'm toying > with the idea of "migrating" this installation to FC6. I'm perfectly willing > to spool off my /home directory (and certain other critical system > configuration files) to DVDs, and "wipe" the openSuSE bits but ONLY > if it won't screw up my Windows installation. The Fedora installation > documentation includes a blurb about migrating from FC5 to FC6, > but nothing about other Linux installations. (No, I don't want to go to > FC7, since it's still being tested - I need a stable environment, and no, > I don't want to migrate to a Debian-based installation, since I'm not as > comfortable/experienced with it as I am with SuSE and Red Hat.) > > Has anyone tried this? Any particular suggestions (aside from backing > up everything, which I will anyway) on how to proceed? > > TIA, > > Bayard > > "Brake for moose - it can save your life" - NHF&GD > > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss an email again! > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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