Installed with disastrous results

Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp.com.au
Thu Dec 4 01:48:51 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:03, Robert L Cochran wrote:
[snip]
> That brings up the conceptually hard part: if you install Linux on 
> /dev/hda and also on /dev/hdb, you have to edit the grub.conf and 
> /etc/fstab files and use the e2label program to make sure your drives 
> have unique partition labels.

Not even this is necessary, the installer should have done that:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:32, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote: 
>   I usually let the install auto allocate the sizes for me,

[Rob:]
> But for your purposes, so long as you installed the grub bootloader you 
> should be able to dual boot both Windows 2000 and Fedora with no sweat. 
> You can pretty much trust the installer. It doesn't wreck anything, at 
> least it doesn't in my experience.

I agree!
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iain at pcorp.nospam.com.au>

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