Dang, posted as the wrong email address again... Thanks for the post, At this time I am hoping to put the xp drive as slave, why, don't really know... I just feel better putting the newer, bigger drive as master... but just wanted to make sure I didn't have to mess with the boot.ini file on the xp drive since it will be moving?
Dean Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian A. Henning said: > As it happens, I just did something similar with my primary XP machine. > > It doesn't really matter whether the XP drive remains as master or gets > moved to slave; that'll be an elementary decision on your part. It may be > helpful to leave it as primary master, so XP's drive letters aren't > potentially confused. I'm not sure if that would be an issue at all. In > my > particular case, hda is XP's C:, hdb is XP's D:, hdc and hdd are CD > devices, > and all the linux partitions are on hde (primary master of a second IDE > controller). It works seamlessly. > > Somewhere along the installation path for Linux, you'll come to the part > where you select bootloader options. I use GRUB, so the following tips > apply to GRUB. I suspect LILO is not vastly different. > > The installer will have probably automatically created the GRUB entry for > your linux installation. You'll need to add an entry for your Windows > installation, which is as simple as giving a label and device where the XP > boot partition is located. You can then elect which OS you wish to boot > by > default. > > Ensure that your bootloader is set to be written to the MBR of the primary > master, and you're all set. > > If I've oversimplified this, it's because A) It's been just long enough > that > I don't remember the specifics and B) I don't want to give advice that is > necessarily distro-dependent. > > I hope this is helpful! > > Cheers, > ~Brian > > P.S.: I'm sure you're already aware that modules are available to allow > you > to mount NTFS partitions in linux, but did you know you can mount ext2/3 > partitions under Windows? There's a utility called ext2fsd (google for > it) > that makes it happen. Acts like an NT service. It's in version 0.2.0, so > you might not want to use it for mission-critical work, but it's a neat > ability to have. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Dean Price >> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:41 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [TriLUG] Dual Booting >> >> >> If I have Windows XP on a single drive machine and add a larger disk as >> the master, load it with linux and move the xp drive to the slave >> position. What needs to be done to make it dual bootable. >> >> Dean Price >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ >> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
