[newbie] Installing on 2nd HD

[A. Rick Anderson]

I've got Win98 on my first HD, and an old 7.2, non-booting version of LM on 
the 2nd HD. When I laid down win98,it  stepped on the boot sectior, so lilo 
was wiped out and I haven't been able to boot in LM since.

Both drives are IDE.  I've given up trying to upgrade the 7.2 install (the 
boot disks/cdroms never see it).

What I am trying to do, is install 8.0 on the 2nd HD, without messing up my 
win98 image.  However, the install wants to go on my 1st HD.

tia,

Re: [newbie] installing on 2nd hd

[L. H. LOO]

Alex, Gary,

At 03:20 PM 01-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
installed them.  They work very well.  Two points:  don't lose the key;

Sorry, this 63-year-old man forgot to suggest : not to buy the type that 
use key to switch on/off, instead buy the "latch" type. No worry of lost 
key. You only need to slide to off, slide to on. For more info go to 
http://www.vipower.com, this is the type I am using. Bought one in August 
@SGD$16.00
Regards.

RE: [newbie] installing on 2nd hd

[L. H. LOO]

Alex,
Since  you have two harddisk, suggest putting your disks in removable 
trays, config each as pri. master, insert whichever you wish to use and 
boot-up. When you are comfortable with the OS's involved then do the 
'marrying'.
I now have at home, Win95B, Win2000 (was WinNt 4 used by my son), 
Linux-Mandrake 7.1,   Red Hat 6.0 each on its own - will be doing that 
also for SuSe 6.3 on a 4 Gb. When I am 'comfortable' with one of the linux 
distro, Win95B can exit thru' the window.
You seem to be wanting dual boot, try read up {Windows/Linux Dual 
Boot}  at  http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue38/veselosky.html
Just my $0.2. Good Luck.

At 04:02 PM 31-10-2000 +, you wrote:
I have installed the bootloader to both hda and hdb I have also tried
disconnecting the other win 98 drive and trying with just the linux drive I
keep getting this message:

starting linux

kernal (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=dev/hdb5 hdd=ide-scsi
[linux-bzImage, setup=0xe00, size-0xa4530

I have also tried using just one linux partition 7.5gb and a swap partition
300mb to no avail

Re: [newbie] installing on 2nd hd

[GAPrichard]

Alex,
The use of hard drive (interchangible) trays is an excellent suggestion.  
I have worked on machines with with these as a technician, and I have also 
installed them.  They work very well.  Two points:  don't lose the key;  the 
drives are VERY fragile, treat them as such.  The trays work so well that you 
may tend to forget how delicate the hard drives can be.  -Gary-

In a message dated 11/1/2000 8:37:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Alex,
 Since  you have two harddisk, suggest putting your disks in removable 
 trays, config each as pri. master, insert whichever you wish to use and 
 boot-up. When you are comfortable with the OS's involved then do the 
 'marrying'.
 I now have at home, Win95B, Win2000 (was WinNt 4 used by my son), 
 Linux-Mandrake 7.1,   Red Hat 6.0 each on its own - will be doing that 
 also for SuSe 6.3 on a 4 Gb. When I am 'comfortable' with one of the linux 
 distro, Win95B can exit thru' the window.
 You seem to be wanting dual boot, try read up {Windows/Linux Dual 
 Boot}  at  http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue38/veselosky.html
 Just my $0.2. Good Luck.
 
 At 04:02 PM 31-10-2000 +, you wrote:
 I have installed the bootloader to both hda and hdb I have also tried
 disconnecting the other win 98 drive and trying with just the linux drive I
 keep getting this message:
 
 starting linux
 
 kernal (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=dev/hdb5 hdd=ide-scsi
 [linux-bzImage, setup=0xe00, size-0xa4530
 
 I have also tried using just one linux partition 7.5gb and a swap partition
 300mb to no avail