[techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:44:03PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Julie thought:
> From: Wendy Galovich <wendy at scottishmusician.com>
> > Hi Keith,
> > If you have only one IDE connection to use, but want to have the
> > two OSes installed on separate drives, you could try this: get one
> > swappable drive rack and two trays to mount the hard drives in. Then you
> > can swap them as often as you need to, with a minimum of fuss.
> 
> I've never had any trouble using two different drives for
> two different OSes using LILO.  Right now I have Win98
> on one drive and Linux on the second (and the other IDE
> controller has both CD-ROM-like-things).

I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives.  It's supposed
to be a performance thing where /usr is on one disk while /home is on
another and similarly for Windows.  I don't know how much gain I get on a
home box (probably not much) but I did it anyhow...

Interestingly, "coldfire" mentioned how with "cable select" jumpered on
the HDs, the linux drive would become /dev/hda for the install and then
/dev/hdb after the 'doze drive is reconnected.  Does anyone know if you
can set the linux HD to "Slave", disconnect the 'doze drive (which is
"Master") and install have linux see the Slave HD as /dev/hdb or will the
box just not boot?

My personal preference would be to disconnect the 'doze HD, start the
linux install and go as far as partitioning the HD and making filesystems.
Then I'd kill the box, reconnect the 'doze disk and restart the linux
install.  At that stage, the partitioning (which is really the dangerous
bit) is done and the linux partitions should show up as linux native when
choosing the disk layout and all should be well.

Conor
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