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Old 03-11-2003, 06:26 AM   #1
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Reinstalling grub and stuff


Hi,
Right my current setup is windows on primary master hd, zip drive on primary slave. Second windows drive on secondary master and DVD-rom on secondary slave.

To load linux, I remove the secondary master windows hd and put in the linux hd (they are in trays), and use a boot floppy.

This is because of lack of IDE ports.

Anyway, I now have a ATA-100 RAID card and I want to put the second windows hd on that, leave the linux hd on secondary master. I would like then to install grub onto a hd so I don't need the boot floppy.

I also have a 9.1 U160 SCSI hd that I would like to install on my SCSI card and allow both linux and windows to used. I guess it will have to be fat32.

I could use some help with all this, like:
Will moving the second windows hd cause windows problems, should I uninstall it or something?
What will windows make of a totally linux hd, will it just ignore it?
Can grub be installed to a hd without reinstalling all of linux?

I'm using SuSE8.1 and winXP.

Any help, words of wisdom etc would be very useful.

Cheers,
Sniff
 
Old 03-11-2003, 07:44 AM   #2
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You shouldn't have too many problems. No need to un/reinstall AFAIK. Windows will just ignore the Linux drive and you can install grub to the primary harddisk, no problem, no OS reinstall. Just install grub and edit grub.conf for your new setup.
 
Old 03-12-2003, 01:38 PM   #3
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Thanks,

Will let you know if all goes smoothly
 
  


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