Sorry ! Shane you told me what I wanted to know ,except were well lilo install master harddrive are slave .The system is for someone else but what he would like to do is have XP on the master and 8.1 on the 2nd H/D which I have slaved and he would like to have the 8.1 on that drive.Well this work trouble free? anything I need to watch loadind MD on the 2nd drive? ----- Original Message ----- From: "shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Master & slave drives
> i can't speak for XP, but if you want to use lilo, the linux loader, > generally you simply install. i have install several 7.1 through 8.2 > installs for others on second disks with win95, win98 and win2k on the > first. you just follow the instructions and generally everything works > fine. > > the one time i have had it _not_ work was a 7.1 install with win95 on the > other drive, and i thought i would check to see how the mandrake installer > saw the win partitions. oops, having linux rewrite your windows partitions > is not to smart. funny thing, while windows couldn't see the second > partition, linux could so the data was saved. they may have even fixed it, > still don't click the windows partitions in the installer. :-) > > On Friday 15 March 2002 19:48, Joe Barron opened a hailing frequency and > transmitted: > > > I,m greener than all getout.But what I,d like to know is setting up > > bootmanager for XP on master Mandrake on slave ,what I,ve found are > > partitioning the same drive. > > -- > "We know what we are, but not what we may become" -William Shakespeare > > shane > http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ > Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 > Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html > Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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