Installing RH 9 on 2nd HD?

[Ken Knecht]

I was reading the RH Linux 9 doc last night and noticed it said I
can't put /boot on the second HD if it is not on the primary
controller (first MB IDE socket). I already have the first HD and
the CD on that controller socket and don't want to change it. (If
it is working, don't fix it!) Is this correct? I thought I'd done
this before on another system and it worked. What now? I don't
want to re-partition the first HD which has XP on it. I'll need
to use a boot floppy? Or won't that work either?

FWIW, I'm using a Compaq Presario 5000T desktop.

I'd prefer to get this planned for before I try to install Linux.

TIA

Ken

[Rich Webb]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 01:23:13 GMT, Ken Knecht <kenk2@mindspring.com>
wrote:

>I was reading the RH Linux 9 doc last night and noticed it said I
>can't put /boot on the second HD if it is not on the primary
>controller (first MB IDE socket). I already have the first HD and
>the CD on that controller socket and don't want to change it. (If
>it is working, don't fix it!) Is this correct?

Might be better to bite the bullet and move the CD-ROM over to the
second IDE controller. Might also get better performance -- probably an
old geeks tale but it's better to share IDE controllers between similar
devices with similar speeds.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

[root-n-toot-n]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 01:23:13 +0000, Ken Knecht wrote:

> I was reading the RH Linux 9 doc last night and noticed it said I
> can't put /boot on the second HD if it is not on the primary
> controller (first MB IDE socket). I already have the first HD and
> the CD on that controller socket and don't want to change it. (If
> it is working, don't fix it!) Is this correct? I thought I'd done
> this before on another system and it worked. What now? I don't
> want to re-partition the first HD which has XP on it. I'll need
> to use a boot floppy? Or won't that work either?
>
> FWIW, I'm using a Compaq Presario 5000T desktop.
>
> I'd prefer to get this planned for before I try to install Linux.
>
> TIA
>
> Ken

You can use ``fips v2'' that is in the dosutils directory
on the #1 RedHat installation CD and resize the XP partition
to give you about 100Mb of free space on the disk.
Then use disk druid/fdisk during the RH installation to
put the /boot partition there.
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