Hi
I an a Linux noobie -
I have Mandrake 5.3 installed as well as Windoze 95 =
why dont you make the current Primary master your slave(ie:change the
jumper settings on both HDD's ) and the current Secondary Master to the
primary master
i know from repeated installs of win95 that it prefers to be installed on
the primary HDD.
then boot up into win - go into the CDrom (put the madrake cd in first)
have 3 Blank/formatted 1.44 floppies ready
look in the dosutils dir and double click on RAWRITE
then i will ask for the path of hte images d:\images\boot.img (where d is
the letter of your CD)
and basically follow the instructions
make the boot.img the Supp.img and the Rescue.img disks
insert the Boot.img disk and reboot your machine - and then follow the
install prompts
pretty easy (umm and my best guess - i dont know too much - but if you are
not using anything in particular in the current Redhat Install then NUKE it
get rid of it and install from a clean HDD
also DOS Fdisk has an interesting and totally undocumented feature FDISK
/MBR
that will over-write your Master Boot Record (where you probably have got
lilo installed) and replace it with a DOS/Win95 MBR.
that way you get rid of LILO too :)
hope this helps
Andrew
At 14:42 17/02/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Bernardo Rodrigues wrote:
>
>> I've gote two IDE HDD one of which I defined as primary master (here
>> is where I want to put Man 5.3 and Lilo) and a secondary master (here
>> I've got the Win stuff, do not blame me all belongs to my better half)
>
>I am no specialist, so excuse me if the following is stupid. I have the
>same setup as you and I am thinking of installing Mandrake 5.3 myself, so
>I have some thoughts on how to do it.
>
>I would startup my computer, enter setup (the BIOS) and set it to boot
>from the CD. The start again with the mandrake CD (hoping that it is
>bootable....). Then (if it works) follow the installation and wipe out
>everything on your primary master to replace it with Mandrake. If you
>want to be 100% sure you don't wipe out your better halfs stuff, open
>your box and disconnect her HD (the secondary master) first. You can
>connect it afterwards to fix the multiboot stuff. OK, so much for worst
>case thinking!
>
>Oyvind.
>
