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I used to have only one hard drive, primary master, /dev/hda. Yesterday I added another, primary slave, /dev/hdb. I don't care about the existing data on /dev/hdb. I want to install slackware from my boot CD on /dev/hdb, without mucking up /dev/hda. I ran fdisk on /dev/hdb, partitioned and formatted them. But I do not know how to install slackware from my boot cd on /dev/hdb.
Boot from the slave? I'm not sure. On dual drive installs, I've installed to hda regardless of where the Linux(es) were. You'd have to invalidate the Windows boot sector in one way or the other or you'd just get Windows, I believe. As far as lilo recognizing the distro, the 'root' option in 'lilo.conf' should take care of that.
Windows boot sector is already gone, I installed windows, then linux. Lilo is set to go to linux by default after 10 seconds at the menu, but i can select to boot to win xp at that menu. So thats already set up, I'm just curious how to make lilo recognize another distro on the slave drive and see if it will boot to it, I'll have to look at lilo.conf
edit: looked in /etc, all i have is lilo.conf.anaconda
It also only has one of my kernels listed on that file
Uh-oh. I don't know anything about Red Hat or any anaconda. It should be easy to do but I don't want to steer you wrong. I don't even know if that's the right file. Maybe someone familiar with RH can help out.
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