[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[The Cat In The Hat]

The CD-Rom is the secondary slave because of where it is on the cable.  You want your new hard drive to be the primary slave in the system. You do not want to move you CD-Rom to the Primary slave position.  The position it is currently in is actually the best for future upgrades and additions of hard drives.

CatNTHat

-----Original Message-----
From:    The Russells krussell at fone.net
Sent:    Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:27:07 -0600
To:      techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

Hi all.  Long story short, I have decided to install Linux (Mandrake 6.0) on a second hard drive, rather than partitioning my current 15GB hard drive devoted to Windows 98.  The second hard drive is 10.1 GB and boots to DOS only right now.  It's not even installed on my machine yet.

Obviously, I am a Linux newbie.  I have used Lnx4Win a bit, but found it fairly unsatisfying.

Anyway.  Currently, according to BIOS, my primary master is my 15GB HD.  I don't have a primary slave  or a secondary master.  My secondary slave is my CD-ROM.  This seems strange to me, as I don't have a secondary master. However, I am a Mac user at heart and don't really get this whole "BIOS" thing yet--I have had this PC for about three weeks.

My question is:  Where should I put my second hard drive, for ease of installing and booting to Linux?  Suggestions from friends include making my CD-ROM the primary slave and then making the second hard drive the secondary master.  Alternately, I could leave the CD-ROM where it is.

I just can't seem to find a whole lot of info on installing Linux on its own HD.  Any pointers or suggestions?  Sorry if this is a dumb/obvious/inappropriate question.  Bear with me here.  I'm trying to learn!

Thanks in advance, Kathleen (who is also wondering where to post an intro.  Last time I belonged to this list, it was grrltalk.  Is that still the correct place?)
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