On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jeffry Smith <jsm...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Rose <dr...@proviss.com> wrote: >> John, does "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" wipeout the OS? I don't seem to have >> anything on my XP drive anymore. >> >> > That should just list (-l) the partitions on /dev/sdb. Another > option is to use cfdisk (cfdisk /dev/sdb), which will startup the > program and show you the partition table, to include the format type > of the partion. > > http://netadmintools.com/html/8cfdisk.man.html > > hth > jeff >
Running 'fdisk -l' absolutely would not have wiped out any info. As Jeff indicated, this simply lists the partitions on the disk. If I were starting fresh on this here's what I would do... Start off by (re)installing Windows XP on the first disk. Then install CentOS on the second disk. During the installation process be careful when it shows / prompts for what disks to use. You want to exclude the first disk. Also, during the CentOS installation there should be a section where it will setup grub. Hopefully it will see that you have a Windows XP installation and automatically configure grub for the dual boot. The only thing I'm not really sure of is I tend to think of CentOS as a standalone server OS, and that's all I've ever really used it for, so I'm not 100% sure of how well it handles dual boot setup. I know for sure that other Linux OS's that are more typical for desktop use, like Fedora and Ubuntu, are very good at finding other installations / OS's and setting grub up properly. Good luck! John _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
