Dual Booting - Please Reply Fast
I have downloaded my set of 7 Debian 3.0r2 installation discs and am ready to install. I just want to know, how will i know which hard drive i will install to during the installation? I have a master and a slave drive and wish to install debian to the slave drive. Also after installing Debian will i still be able to boot windows xp? I accidentally installed xp on the wrong partition but on the same hard drive as my old os a while ago and it allowed me to select between windows me and xp at boot up, will this be the same if i dual boot with windows xp and debian but on seperate hard drives or will i have to do something to be able to do this and if so what?
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I'm not SURE, but, hda should be your main drive, and hdb should be your slave.. Not positive though...
However, I do know the answer to your second question ;) Install lilo for a boot loader. In order to boot windows from that, just put the following at the bottom of /etc/lilo.conf other=/dev/hda label=Windows Then run /sbin/lilo Thats assuming windows is on hda. If its on hdb, then change it to /dev/hdb. |
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Just to clarify:
Unlike Windows where the 'drives' have semi-arbitrary names, Linux gives sensible names to your devices, but you need to know what you have in order to understand them. Most computers come with 2 IDE controllers, so you can have 4 devices. These are called as follows: /dev/hda = Primary Master /dev/hdb = Primary Slave /dev/hdc = Secondary Master /dev/hdd = Secondary Slave Partitions on your harddrive(s) will also be shown. These, too, are numbered sensibly: /dev/hda1 = First partition on your primary master /dev/hda2 = second partition on your primary master The only thing to look out for is if it suddenly jumps from /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda5. This is not a problem. If your system looks like that, then it is likely that you have set up hda1 as a primary partition, hda2 as an extended partition and hda5+ will be logical partitions held within hda2. Makes sense? As for booting Windows after you've installed Debian. Shouldn't be a problem. If the bootloader doesn't detect Windows and add an entry for it automagically, you can do so when you boot up into Debian. And please make a boot floppy. Please. |
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