Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Michael, I just re-checked my instructions I had for myself elsewhere and found I had made a mistake. In the menu.lst file make sure there IS a space between the (hd0) and (hd1). Sorry about that. HTH's Whit Whit Hansell wrote: Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on an

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on another. Very easy to set up. But as I remember, when I installed Windows, I disconnected the Linux drive while doing the install, then put the WXP drive on middle connector of ATA cable when I had that situation. But now I have t

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Isaac
>> It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without >> using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to >> choice of booting it when you boot up the PC.. > > Yes, but it's fragile and not worth doing that way. > Depends on the version of grub: http://bugs.

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Isaac
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Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Goley
Partition magic really isn't worth it anymore. It rarely works with modern large disks. I agree. A similar open source solution that works better is GParted.  They have a bootable iso that gives you the same type of functionality. 

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:43:02AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the > machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know > many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for cert

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread id id
" trust grub to boot Windows that trust Windows to boot anything that is not Windows. -- I don't get no respect. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI " ( The crux of the matter -- trust ) Is debian-lenny open source? Windoze obfuscated? Best to have two separate boxes interconnected by ether-net.

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
There's nothing amd64 specific in this question, debian-user would have been better. On Qua, 08 Dez 2010, Michael Fothergill wrote: I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one with Debian on it. My plan is to install Windows on the new drive.. If you installed Wi

dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain things I do.. I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I