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Linux - Win98 install order
Bazoukas:
ops my bad. I didnt read the whole post.
DC:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
But the point is, you *can* install Winblows after installing Linux.
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Good
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Sure the easiest way if you can is to install Winblows first
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Well, not in my case - I'm using the 4GB disk to hold files I want to take to my new install, so naturally I can't install Windows on it (and I'm NOT installing Windows on the faster 40GB disk either) This is easier (a lot) than burning to CD or something, since I don't have a burner in this PC.
And it sure is easier than formatting part of the 40 GB drive, formatting the 4GB drive and installing Windows, backing up files, formatting part of the 40GB drive and installing Linux, restoring files, finish partitioning and then *really* restore everything how it should be.
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but it only takes a second to boot Linux from a boot disk and rerunning LILO. People who say you can't install Windows second are full of beans. Of course I would put Windows on the first drive.
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Well, that would mean I should make the 4 GB disk hda, the DVD player hdb, and the 40GB disk hdc or hdd (I can't put both HD's on the same IDE controller, ATA 33 and ATA 100 don't mix). Or install Windows on the 40GB which - again - is something I won't do. That would all be way to unesthetical, I want Linux and the bootloader on the 40 GB drive on hda, the DVD on hdc and windows on the 4GB on hdd.
voidmain:
The only thing I can't remember for certain is if Win9x will have trouble installing on something other than the first drive. I know NT/2K have no problem with this but I recall Win98 being more brain dead. It might be the reason I always put it on the first drive (it doesn't have to be the first partition though I do know that for sure, as long as the partitions before the target partition are not FAT* partitions). Why don't you want to put Windows on the same large drive? You can always format the smaller drive as a shared work drive (make the big drive the master).
DC:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
The only thing I can't remember for certain is if Win9x will have trouble installing on something other than the first drive. I know NT/2K have no problem with this but I recall Win98 being more brain dead.
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Really? That might be a problem. Would installing on hda, swapping and using it with hdd work?
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Why don't you want to put Windows on the same large drive? You can always format the smaller drive as a shared work drive (make the big drive the master).
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I don't need shared work, I'll just use the Win98 disk for all stuff that needs to be transferred (it'll be used mostly for games anyway, so not much transferring).
But the larger drive is faster and newer (= more reliable). Plus it's easier to keep the two seperated in case I need to move one of the hard disks (this may occur if I need extra space on my other PC). So I want Win98 on the 4GB disk, and NOT on the 40GB.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by DC:
Really? That might be a problem. Would installing on hda, swapping and using it with hdd work?
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One way to find out, give it a shot. And swapping disks after an install is possible with Linux as long as you realize that you must change the device names in /etc/fstab and in the boot loader (and intall the boot loader on the MBR of the first drive). For the /etc/fstab that's pretty easy, just change it before you shut down and swap the drives.
For the boot loader it might be easiest to make a boot floppy so you can boot up after swapping drives and then reinstall the boot loader after making appropriate changes to the boot loader's config file. You will also have to pass a parameter to your boot disk telling the kernel where the new location of the root file system is. It's not really a big deal though, I have done it on more than one occasion.
Another option is to stick the smaller drive on the first channel and the bigger one on the second channel. If you later remove the first drive you might still have to change the /etc/fstab and boot loader if the device names change. An alternate method is changing the fstab settings by booting in rescue mode from the install CD, or using Tom's boot disk, or knoppix CD, etc, then mount the root file system on the hard drive, then modifying the fstab. I've done it that way as well. But again, that's only if you move/remove a drive to where the device names will change.
[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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