Hello suprmariobro,

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 10:04:17 PM, you wrote:

s>   I'm new to linux and i'm having trouble installing it.I have two
s> hard drives an internal and external. I want to install linux on my
s> external drive but it won't work.Windows keeps booting on the internal
s> drive. Can anyone help me?

When you install your Linux distro, there should be an option for
choosing either to install a boot loader (like LILO or GRUB) in the
/MBR or to boot from a floppy disk.

With two operating systems on a single computer, you need a bootloader
on the first hard drive, so that you can choose which OS to boot.

If you don't want to install a bootloader, and have a floppy drive,
you can create a floppy boot disk just for Linux, and then when you
want to boot the Linux OS, you can use the floppy, which will boot
before any HD, if you have it set to do that in the BIOS.

 
-wittig
website: http://www.robertwittig.com/
weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/
.



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