Preston Crawford wrote:
I have a nice, well-running, well behaved Fedora installation. I'm thinking of buying Windows because I need to learn ASP.NET and Mono, for all that it does well, has some shortcomings. Plus there's no good editor for ASP.NET. Anyway, that's the "why would you want to do this" part. As far as how I would do it, I have a second hard drive. I think I can just install the second hard drive with Windows and then point Grub at that drive as a possible boot point. Is that true? Or will Windows want to erase the MBR of HDA and thus this won't be possible at all unless I swap the places of the hard drives and reinstall GRUB onto the new HDA?
Either way, I'd like to do this (assuming I even choose to do it) in a
fashion that doesn't ruin my Linux install.
Preston
MS Windows does not like being on a secondary hard drive.
My experience has been that you need to follow this procedure:
1) Take out the Fedora Harddrive
2) Replace with soon-to-be MS Windows Harddrive
3) Install Windows
4) Move the Windows Harddrive to the second bay, install Fedora Harddrive in the primary bay
5) Add an entry similar to the following to your grub.conf so that you can boot MS Windows:
title Win2K
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
The first two lines "swap" the primary and secondary drive, thus making Windows think it's still in the primary hard drive slot.
Good luck..
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