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neuromancerzero
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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: Installing on a secondary hard-drive |
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| Ok. Here are the important stats of my computer. Amd64 3000+ asus k8vsedx mobo, radeon 9800 pro, 2 sticks of corsair ram, a maxtor 120gb harddrive for the primary, and a brand new maxtor 250gb harddrive for secondary. I want to install gentoo 2005.1 amd64 on the maxtor 250gb and leave it secondary. I basically want to make a dualboot between two harddrives. is this possible using gentoo. I know it is using some other oses. Also I have never installed gentoo before. Are there anythings i should know regarding conflicts with my hardware? |
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user317
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| look at the example grub.conf and the grub section in the installation docs. dual booting is pretty trivial |
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neuromancerzero
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I also wanted to know if i have to format it in fat32 |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| You cannot install any linux distro to a fat32 partition so don't format it fat32 |
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: Re: Installing on a secondary hard-drive |
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| neuromancerzero wrote: | | Ok. Here are the important stats of my computer. Amd64 3000+ asus k8vsedx mobo, radeon 9800 pro, 2 sticks of corsair ram, a maxtor 120gb harddrive for the primary, and a brand new maxtor 250gb harddrive for secondary. I want to install gentoo 2005.1 amd64 on the maxtor 250gb and leave it secondary. I basically want to make a dualboot between two harddrives. is this possible using gentoo. I know it is using some other oses. Also I have never installed gentoo before. Are there anythings i should know regarding conflicts with my hardware? |
As mentioned above dual boot is as easy to set up with Gentoo as any other distros. just edit your boot managers config files and if you use lilo, make sure your other system's boot partition is mounted so it can find the kernel. As for your cpu and hardware their is a forum here dedicated to the amd64 and a fine guide B-)
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neuromancerzero
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| Do i need to mount my hard drive to install linux as a dual boot to windows xp pro. Here is some other info which i imagine is important. My new hard drive was not recognizing when i set it up as a secondary, so i switched my original hard drive to sata 1 input and the new hard drive to sata 2. Is this dangerous for the system and will it change the way i need to install gentoo? |
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slycordinator
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It shouldn't be "dangerous."
But since your windows drive will be secondary you'll have to use a different than normal grub setup to get windows to boot. You'll have to use grub's map command to make windows "think" it's on the primary HD. |
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