Hello, Sorry, but I beg to differ...
I have Win98 and BeOS on my secondary master and linux on my primary master.
Cdrom is primary slave. I have even installed Win98 after installing linux.
In your bios, shut down whichever drive you will not be installing to until
after installation. I believe linux still picks up on the windows partition
(drive) when I have deselected that drive in the bios. Put lilo in the mbr
of the linux drive and in worst case, add the win drive later through
whatever mechanism Mandrake uses (can't remember). Have fun!
On Saturday 04 November 2000 07:24, Ed Tharp wrote:
> NO!! windows wants to be on the first dos partition on the first ide
> channel, on the MASTER setting only........
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abraham E Mandac Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:46 AM
> Subject: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk
>
> > Please help!
> >
> > I currently run Windows 98 on this system:
> >
> > Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM on an ASUS P2E-M motherboard
> > 2 GB IDE HDD [the master HDD -- my only HDD at that]
> >
> > This is what I intend to do:
> >
> > 1. Buy a new IDE disk and mount it as the new master drive [to replace
> > the old two-gig hard disk]
> >
> > 2. Reconnect the old 2 GB drive, this time as the slave drive [with
>
> Windows
>
> > and everything else on it still intact]
> >
> > I would then like to end up with a dual-boot system where the new master
> > drive is devoted to linux and the old 2-gig disk, well, remains as it is,
> > devoted to Windows.
> >
> > Can this be safely done by going through Linux-Mandrake's install as it
>
> is?
>
> > Would the installer be able to 'detect' Windows on the slave slot so I
> > could still boot to Windows as it always was?
> >
> > I've about wracked my mind reading as much as I can on IDE and hard
> > disks. I'm guessing it can be done. But I'd like the assurance of an
> > expert. I've backed up important stuff on the old drive but I'm still
> > scared to death
>
> of
>
> > taking that leap of faith [if i did guess right] of going ahead with
> > this. I bought the Mandrake distro 5 days ago and I'm itching to get
> > started.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Abe Mandac
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