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Hey everyone,
I have a question about using one box with two hard drives BUT XP is already installed on one of the hard drives and I wanna sorta Dual Boot between the two...
How Would I go about doing this?
Just follow the instructions from the Red Hat installer.. You'll get to a screen where you'll have to choose which HDD's you want to take part of your installation. Just unmark the one that already has xp. Just be sure to install the bootloader at the MBR of the first HD.
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If you have free space on your XP drive, you might want to reconsider, depending on what programs you run. If you have IO intense applications, it is better to split the (slow) hard drive accesses between two drives (two data streams, programs / libs and data on different drives etc. -- you get my drift).
It is (for WinNT) also better to have the swap space on a separate drive, so on my machine I "cross" over the swap spaces of Linux and WinNT each on the other disk.
Oh yes, and you should make a vfat partition for data transfer between systems (at least on CD-sized one ).
? I'm sorta confused, You mean so the linux disk will show up in XP right? So that I can transfer files in xp onto the linux disk easily am I correct? I can make it a vfat in the Mandrake setup right?
But whats the above stuff mean? Like:
If you have free space on your XP drive, you might want to reconsider, depending on what programs you run. If you have IO intense applications, it is better to split the (slow) hard drive accesses between two drives (two data streams, programs / libs and data on different drives etc. -- you get my drift).
It is (for WinNT) also better to have the swap space on a separate drive, so on my machine I "cross" over the swap spaces of Linux and WinNT each on the other disk.
WOW, I'm running mandrake 9.1 right, And as for my post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...892#post364892
where I was having problems with getting my cable modem up and running the problems are NO MORE, I mean I didnt even have to configure anything to get it running as with RH 7.3 and 9.0 I had to do tons of stuff just to even TRY to get it running.
But thanks everyone!!
I dunno if the transferring thru xp to mand will work but I'm gonna try later on and see
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Originally posted by MDurai ? I'm sorta confused, You mean so the linux disk will show up in XP right? So that I can transfer files in xp onto the linux disk easily am I correct? I can make it a vfat in the Mandrake setup right?
But whats the above stuff mean? Like:
...
???
I'm totally lost
You have two hard drives, under Linux called hda and hdb, right?
Now, put XP on hda but swap[XP] on hdb.
Next, install Linux on hdb, but swap[Linux] on hda.
As a consequence, swapping will not interfere with loading of programs, libs, and data.
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Originally posted by MDurai I dunno if the transferring thru xp to mand will work but I'm gonna try later on and see
Linux and XP have different file systems. Create a partition (best during / previous to installation) of the type vfat (fat32), from which both systems can read and write, it makes exchange of data so much easier.
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Originally posted by MDurai Hmmm... Now I'm wondering how to log in as root since that isnt displayed at startup, How can I do this?
Search this site for "root mandrake login", that should turn up enough information for interesting reading .
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