Re: Installing to second harddrive

[Sarah J Straith <sarahj earthling net>]

Ryan Jameson wrote:
> 
> 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)

Yes, I do know about harddrive numbering, thank you for the
offer.
 
> 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.

Hmmmmmmm.  So am I, when I get the chance. <G> 
Unfortunately 
I have Win95 on my home system, yeccchhhhh!, so the next 
question becomes....

How do I do this with Win95 on "C:" and Linux on the
secondary?

Oh, shit!  I forgot to give you all a, probably, vital piece
of data. <fx=smacking self up-side the head>

The secondary drive is in a removable rack.

Thanks to all for your help.

	SJ Straith