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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing os on slave Post 302075811 by tayyabq8 on Wednesday 7th of June 2006 02:30:08 AM
Old 06-07-2006
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 04:14 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

installgrub

installgrub(1M) 														   installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

	   Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

	   Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

	   The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

	   The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

	   The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
	   devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file	is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
	   /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
		/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

	   Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

								    24 May 2005 						   installgrub(1M)
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