SuSE and XP, OK--Like to add FC2
 

All, (posted in Fedora forum before SuSE forum was up)

Here is the output of df –T:

Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 reiserfs 35108940 5922248 29186692 17% /
tmpfs tmpfs 777840 28 777812 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 ntfs 39078080 67888 39010192 1% /windows/C
/dev/sda2 ntfs 117089752 45410460 71679292 39% /windows/D
/dev/sda3 vfat 48082 648 47434 2% /windows/E

I currently have three HD's.

A SATA 120GB with Windows XP (sda2)
A SATA 36GB with SuSE Linux (sdb2)
An IDE 37 GB with nothing on it (hda1)

At the moment, I can successfully boot into either Linux or Windows. I get the choice each time GRUB comes up.

I'd like to install Fedora Core 2 on the empty third HD (hda1) and retain the other OS’s

I booted from the Fedora CD, and started the process. When it came time to configure the bootloader, I didn't know where to point it. Here is what it automatically suggested:

Fedora Core: /dev/hda2
Other: /dev/sda3

So, at that point I didn’t know which OS “other” pertained to or how to add FC2 so that all three are up and running.

Any configuration suggestions will be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Herk

i'm just a noob so i might be totally off here, but it seems to me that /dev/hda1 isn't empty since you have it mounted as /windows/c. i don't know where your bootloader is residing but it's probably on /dev/hda since i hear there's lots of problems booting linux from sata. the option to install to dev/hda2 makes sense, it will create a second partition on your ide drive behind your current partition (C). from what you're saying here i can't tell how big it's gonna be. the option to install to /dev/sda3 is suggested because the installer can see that it's not containing an operating system so you could install there without losing an os but you would lose all data on E:

just read your post in the fedora section and some of the answers there make sense but i don't believe they're really an answer to your question. all that stuff about grub.conf is correct i think, and you problably have to configure grub manually to let it see both linux partitions. as i see it you're xp is on /dev/sda2/ (/windows/D) and sda3 (/windows/E) is what? (really small). it would make most sense to either clean up the partitions on hda (and then install FC to what woulde become hda1) or to install it to the hda2 it suggests.