Edison
I am sorry I did not respond to your earlier post but my ISP's mail
server was down most of the day yesterday.
When I first installed Mandrake I had the Mandrake Complete retail
package and the install guide included with it does cover the 2hd option.
As to a bootloader I have used LILO, SystemCommander, a Boot disk and
none. Each is good in its own way. For the none when I had just 2 bootable
partitions, one on each hd, if I wanted to boot to the other OS I simply
changed the setting in the BIOS as to which hd booted first.
If you expect to play around with more than 2 OSs or desire to be able to
change your partitions around and do not mind spending the money I would
recommend getting either SystemCommander Deluxe( which includes its on
patitioning option) or PatitionMagic ( which includes BootMagic). they are
both good programs and each runs around $50 .
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edison Gica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: RE:[newbie] Install on 2nd hd
> Hi Charles:
>
> Thanks for the reply. Since this is to be a discussion well I might as
well
> post it anyway.
>
> The site I was referring to is Mandrake site itself
> (www.linux-mandrake.com).
>
> Try going through the Demos under 'Recommended'. It does not say anything
> about being able to choose a 2nd HD. If you mean to click on the 'mount
> partition' option, well as I have posted (see [newbie] Discussions:
> Documentation) Mandrake has a lot of work to do w/ their documentation.
>
> See also their Install Guide (page 45 Section 6.6 Selecting Mount Points),
> it does not mention anything about a 2nd HD also. See also my posting
> ([newbie] Discussions: Documentation 2).
>
> As I said in my previous posting 'newbies are newbies' and being a newbie
I
> would not just want to experiment and suddenly 'bboommm' my previous OS is
> gone.
>
> Thanks for the info, at least I now know that I can do so under
> 'Recommended' setup.
>
> edison
>
> >From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE:[newbie] Install on 2nd hd
> >Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:36:05 -0500
> >
> > On Thurs. 5/25/2000 Edison wrote:
> >Now in my case, I have 2 hard disks and found out from the demos in the
web
> >that I have to go to either 'Custom' or 'Expert' installation to be able
to
> >install 7.0 in my second hard disk w/c I want to do
> >
> >Edison
> > At what site did you get this info?
> > My advice would be to stay away from this site because the info is
> >WRONG.
> > I have 2 systems and each has 2 hds.When installing Mandrake I have
> >always used the Recommended installation and in each case I installed
Linux
> >on the 2nd hd by choosing to put it there in the Mount Point Selection
> >portion of the installation program.
> >
> > Charles
> >
>
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