Re: Installing to second harddrive

[Ryan Jameson <ratguy proaxis com>]

At 06:58 PM 9/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
> I have a second harddrive that I am going to be installing
> on my Pentium 200 machine.  I want to dedicate that drive
> to Linux.
>
> I *tried* to do a search on the list archive at the RedHat
> web site for information on this and came up dry.  Maybe,
> I'm just not setting the search parameters correctly, or
> something.
>
> Anyway......
>
> Can anyone here give me a suggestions on how to do this, or
> were (on the web or otherwise) I should look to find
> information on same?
>
> All help will be gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         SJ Straith

Well, I was able to do it without having to find any info on it over the 
web. My setup is a little complicated, but I'll describe it to you. My 
second hard drive is the secondary master. So when installing, the root 
went to hdc1 and I created a swap at hdc2. (if you don't know about hard 
drive numbering, just ask)

During installation, it asks where you want to put lilo. Either the MBR or 
the first section of the partion (or is it hard drive) that you are 
installing too. I use WinNT's boot manager, so I chose the second option. I 
used another program under NT called bootpart that helped me setup NT's 
boot manager to boot to the linux partition. So when booting up, I'm given 
the option of win95, NT, or Linux. when I choose Linux, up comes lilo and 
from there I can also pick from the same three. Usually, I just press enter 
and it boots Linux. If I'm in a weird mood, I can tell it to boot to nt and 
just switch between boot managers all day if I want too. I'm just sick like 
that.

Ryan