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06-02-2006
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Installing os on slave
Hello
Can We install an operating system like linux on slave disk. 
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06-02-2006
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Of course you can install LINUX on a slave disk, but you'll have to be careful about naming conventions in the grub info page and MBR. Provide some more details, so that we can figure out exactly what you need.
Regards, Tayyab
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06-03-2006
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Thank you very much tayyab Sir,
What I want to know is when I am trying to install linux on slave drive, during partition with druid ,it says that cannot allocate the files with this drive. And also if I install linux in the slave drive then how to dual boot it with windos 2000. Please help me tayyab sir
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06-06-2006
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Sorry for delayed reply, as I was on sick leave for 2 days.
You have two hard drives, LINUX'll identify these as follows: hda (Your Master Drive, with Windows 2000 pre-installed) hdb (Your Slave Drive, you are planning to install LINUX on this drive) Make sure that hda is formatted with VFAT not NTFS and hdb is un-partitioned. During installation select hdb as your installation drive, create your partitions as desired, using Disk Druid(NOTE: Make sure that while creating partitions in hdb, /boot is your first partition, means /dev/hdb1 should be mounted to /boot, /boot'll contain the LINUX kernel and all files necessary to boot and some BIOSes have limit to read beyod 1028 cylenders, so its most recommended to have /boot as your first partition) About DUAL boot: GRUB'll take care of your boot process, therefor I suggested you that hda(Win2k) partition should be VFAT so that GRUB can recognize it and put an pointing entry to hda in its grub.conf. No need to worry about that, grub will do the necessary work for you. (If your BIOS doesn't make any trouble) Select boot from your slave drive in your BIOS setup and enjoy the UNIX world. Regards, Tayyab Last edited by tayyabq8; 06-07-2006 at 12:14 AM.
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06-07-2006
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That was all ok.
But instead of chaging the boot order in your BIOS, you could install grub on your primary disk's MBR... Just be careful with disk names in grub, they are different from Linux. For example, hdb1 = (hd0,0) in grub. I've had win2k on NTFS with linux and had no problems... But I modified menu.lst by hand...
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