On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:00:51AM -0500, Keven Ring wrote: > 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.. > Preston, Since it's unlikely you will be installing .NET on a non-XP system the gymnastics of mapping the drives shouln't be needed. I currently run a dual boot system with WindowsXP running on the secondary drive. Works fine. John V. Pope
