On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: > Hello All, > > Ok here is the Thing. I am going to purchase a new Hard > drive for my system sometime this week. When I get it I am going to run > Linux on the old one I have. I have a Compaq Presario 2240 with a 2.1 gig > drive. Right now I have it partitions so the Linux Mandrake uses 1.1 gigs > of space and Win95 uses the other 1 gig. Well I am running out of space on > the drive. I am going to be getting a 4 gig drive that I am going to have > Win95 on (I have a Wife and 2 kids, They don't understand Linux YET) So > what I am going to do is run Linux on the 2.1 gig drive. I think Mandrake > will like the extra space don't you?? :) What I need to know is how I am > to set it up. Will Disk Druid and the Setup see the other HD, and Beable to > modify the MBR for LILO/LEELO ??? > Let's see if I got this straight: you want to wipe your old MS-installation from your drive and assign the place to Linux. Then you want to install MS on a new HD. You want to start Linux and MS via LiLo. Right? Ok. You have but one problem: you can't resize existing Linux partitions with a Linux program. You will need Partition Magic 4.0 for this (excellent buy anyway, so get it ;-)). Proposed procedure: 1.) Delete old MS installation and resize Linux partitions with the P.M. disk. 2.) Install MS on the designed disk. This disk should be the master drive for this task (i.e. the first on the IDE-bus 1). 3.) Switch the HDs: Linux drive again master, MS drive now slave on the same IDE bus. 4.) edit /etc/lilo.conf. add: other = /dev/hdb1 table = /dev/hdb label = win 5.) run /sbin/lilo 6.) reboot. You should now be able to run MS from the lilo prompt by typing "win". Note: You may possibly do one or more steps with disk druid or linuxconfig. I don't know, I never use them ;-). For more information, read the Linux+Win95 mini-HOWTO and the LILO mini-HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO, if you've installed the howto.rpm). Regards tom >[snip] > "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results!" Especially true for working at computers ;-)
