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Multi-install question
- From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin Weiss name>
- To: Redhat List <redhat-list redhat com>
- Subject: Multi-install question
- Date: Tue Sep 30 09:23:08 2003
I have a multi-boot test system. It currently has one drive with both XP
and Shrike installed. I installed XP first, so I'm using Grub as the boot
loader.
I've installed a second drive and am about to install Win2K on it. Now, I
know that this is going to break my install and that I'm going to have to
do something to fix it, and I just wanted to make sure that I understand
what's about to happen.
The win2k install will leave the hda partition table alone, but will
over-write hda's MBR, telling it to point to the boot sector on hdb (where
I'll be installing win2k), correct? So, all I should have to do is:
a) backup hda's MBR (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1)
b) install win2k on hdb
c) restore hda's MBR (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1)
d) manually edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add an entry for hdb
Does this sound correct?
Thanks!
Ben
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