I think my memory slipped back to when Linux wouldn't install to anything other than the first drive like Windows, even worse "DOS." My Google search didn't say that had changed and the screenshots in the many reviews didn't mention that or I missed it.
I even tried to install on one of my computers first, only to have to exchange a DVD drive, spring broke on the drawer, then I found out my PCI-X SATA controller is bad. On his computer, I had to pull the CD-ROM, since his DVD/CD-RW wouldn't read right, someone even wrote on it "LG Sucks," I made it the slave for now. My Mint Forum Log-in was discontinued, so I had to find an email address through a review to hopefully have it activated again. I had stopped using it, since I got used to Ubuntu's Gnome menus, but that is changing in the future in some way, or so I read. Thanks for the assistance, Joan in Reno --- On Sun, 3/13/11, J <[email protected]> wrote: From: J <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Questions of Mint/Ubuntu install with WinXP To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:11 AM On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:10, dbneeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Joan-- > > Why would you want to do that to begin with? > > The boot manager will have to be installed on the first drive anyway; it will > not care which drive either OS is installed on. Thus, you > should be able to leave the XP where it is and install Linux on the second > drive if you wish. Just as an aside to consider, will XP even boot if it's not on the first partition on first hard disk? It's been so long since I messed with an XP system, but that's something to think about. It used to be that Windows was coded so that it had to reside on the first partition on the first (Primary Master) hard disk, otherwise, it would not boot at all. I want to say that carried over into XP and didn't get fixed until maybe Vista, but I'm not sure. As I said, it's been ages since I last messed with XP. Cheers, Jeff [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
