[98199] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Can I do this, NEWBIE Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Hamilton)
Sat Nov 7 09:39:54 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:39:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Hamilton <gearhead@interport.net>
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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, James R. McKenzie wrote:
> Hello folx,
>
> I've been a lurker on this journal/list for about 6 months but I
> can't say I've found EXACTLY what I need yet. My dad is gonna get
> an 8.4 gig HDD for his Win95 box and give me his old 2.1 gigger.
> I have Win95 in mine and ALSO want RHL 5.2. I want to install RHL
> on the 2.1 but as a second HDD. A friend says I can install it as
> a 1st HDD and then switch the Win95 HDD back as the first but
> can't put Linux on a secondary (slave) drive. Does anyone have
> experience with this?
Your friend is pretty much wrong.
I have a 2 HDs on IDE0 in my computer, the primary has win95 on it and
the slave has Linux on it. I'm not using an IDE CDROM if you are it may
be the slave on IDE0 or the primary on IDE1, you should find out before
you start your installation. If you do have an IDE CDROM as the slave on
IDE0 you might want to move it to IDE1 and put the second HD as the slave
on IDE0.
I DID NOT have to do any hardware swapping to load Linux. I installed
directly to the slave on IDE0 (aka hdb) with LILO going on the
primary.
As I recall this is all explained pretty well in RedHat's Installation
Guide which is on their website and you should do yourself a favor and
read it before you start.
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