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I am installing 9.2 professional in my mixed IDE/SCSI environment. I want to install in on my IDE drive which currently contains nothing. My SATA drive contains Windows XP and I want to leave it alone. However, by default, the Suse setup wants to install on my SATA drive. How do I tell it to install on my IDE drive? Suse.com says that this problem is out of the scope of free support and wants to charge me $40 for support. Under the hardware list, it sees the IDE drive, but I cannot figure out how to install on /dev/hda and not /dev/sda. I have tried the "custom" partition, but that just allows me to customize the partitions on the SATA drive. I need to specify my IDE drive.
expert partitioning, when you install...
It'll tell you how it's thought about partitioning, click on that
and don't accept the things it's said and do expert...
It's all fairly obvious from there
I guess I am just too much of a novice at this. I go into Expert Partioning and find every option to change every partion...on the SATA drive. I still cannot find a way to add the /dev/hda. When I unplug the SATA drive and just leave the IDE connected, it recognizes that the disk exists, but gives me an error that there are no available disks to install the OS on. Weird.
Kind of a harsh way to do it, I have seen posts on another forum where a person done it. Is to unplug the SATA drive until after the install is done. But you will have to configure GRUB to let it know that you have a bootable Windows.
<edit>I just saw that you already tried that, should have read closer, sorry.</edit>
I appreciate the suggestions thus far. I first started the Suse installation with the disk as "unallocated" space. When it didn't work, I set an NTFS partition and it still didn't work. I tried installing Xandros on this same disk last night (it didn't recognize the SATA drive but the IDE drive...lol). It installed perfectly, however during configuration, the install freezes. Now that I remember, I got the same "freezing" effect while trying to install Fedora. I think maybe the hard drive is bad, and Suse can detect that without beginning an installation on that. Any comments on this?
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Official / SuSE 10.0 64-Bit / Mandriva 2005 LE
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One of the ways I have installed different distros of Linux is to use Partition Magic from Windows and create a Linux partition (ext-2) on your blank drive, then when you install Linux, make sure that you say you want to install on existing Linux partitions......
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