Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/19/2010 07:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Yes. If you are willing to edit the BIOS you don't even need GRUB to boot off different drives. The BIOS on my 3 year old motherboard allows me to specify the drive (IDE, SATA, USB) and their boot order. Mine allows a post time menu as most new ones do I am sure, the problem is installing it if you don't know what you are doing. To get windows on the second drive, you need to make it sda, install as usual, then move it to sdb, or it will overwrite sda's mbr etc... I have mine setup this way. I have always been under the impression that Window had to be on Sda1 . True. But you can fool it into thinking that it is installed on the first device with grub's map (or drivemap in grub2). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Installing Linux on sdb ??
I have a computer with Two Sata drivers and I need to install Windows 7 and Fedora 12 . Can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 or does it need to be on sda1 I'm not familiar with Windows 7. I'm setting up this box for a Newbie that needs to have Windows and Linux dual boot. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:57 -0400, Jim wrote: I have a computer with Two Sata drivers and I need to install Windows 7 and Fedora 12 . Can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 or does it need to be on sda1 I'm not familiar with Windows 7. I'm setting up this box for a Newbie that needs to have Windows and Linux dual boot. Jim, More important than the drives will be the order you install Windows and Fedora. Cut to the chase: install Windows first. It will probably want to install itself on the /dev/sda1 partition. This is not a problem for Fedora 12. Just be sure you tell the Fedora installer to install it on /dev/sdbX -- it will probably want to make two partitions on /dev/sdb for /boot and LVM -- and to install GRUB on /dev/sda. Then edit /etc/grub.conf to uncomment the #hiddenmenu line and set the timeout to 5 seconds or so. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
RE: Installing Linux on sdb ??
I have a computer with Two Sata drivers and I need to install Windows 7 and Fedora 12 . Can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 or does it need to be on sda1 I'm not familiar with Windows 7. I'm setting up this box for a Newbie that needs to have Windows and Linux dual boot. Unless your savvy with bcdedit etc and grub, just install Win7 on sda, then install Fedora on sdb and it will magically work... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
RE: Installing Linux on sdb ??
Cut to the chase: install Windows first. It will probably want to install itself on the /dev/sda1 partition. Actually sda1 and 2 by default... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??
On 04/19/2010 06:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Cut to the chase: install Windows first. It will probably want to install itself on the /dev/sda1 partition. Actually sda1 and 2 by default... But can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 and still work ?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/19/2010 06:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Cut to the chase: install Windows first. It will probably want to install itself on the /dev/sda1 partition. Actually sda1 and 2 by default... But can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 and still work ?? Yes. If you are willing to edit the BIOS you don't even need GRUB to boot off different drives. The BIOS on my 3 year old motherboard allows me to specify the drive (IDE, SATA, USB) and their boot order. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
RE: Installing Linux on sdb ??
Yes. If you are willing to edit the BIOS you don't even need GRUB to boot off different drives. The BIOS on my 3 year old motherboard allows me to specify the drive (IDE, SATA, USB) and their boot order. Mine allows a post time menu as most new ones do I am sure, the problem is installing it if you don't know what you are doing. To get windows on the second drive, you need to make it sda, install as usual, then move it to sdb, or it will overwrite sda's mbr etc... I have mine setup this way. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
RE: Installing Linux on sdb ??
I have always been under the impression that Window had to be on Sda1 . Well, not since NT4, when I started using it:) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:57 -0400, Jim wrote: Can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 or does it need to be on sda1 I'm not familiar with Windows 7. Do you really need to insist which device they're both on? If you're wanting to pick drives because they have different sizes, the simplest solution might be to unplug and replug them in the opposite order (once, and leave them that way around). -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
