Hi list,
i have one new machine with 2 hard drives and i'd like to install both Windows XP and Fedora Linux. 99,9% of the time i use Fedora but, unluckily, i still need to have XP installed. Having 2 disks, ¿can i install Fedora in one of them and XP in the other? Will i be able to use grub to boot the system either from one disk or from another? So far, i have only experimented with a 1 hard drive dual installation, and everything has been all right. Well... almost ;)
The reason i've thought doing things this way is because i'd like to have one entire drive dedicated to Fedora, keeping XP in the other drive. I also would like to install some other distribution, maybe dedicating half of the disk space to Fedora and the other half to one another. Will i be able to do this?
Thanks,
Alf
Grub can boot several installations. I boot 4 seperate installations within two hard disks. (one ms, three linux)
The best setups seem to be obtained from installing individual boot partition for each installation and installing the last installation into /MBR and add chainload instructions for each distribution. (advanced boot options)
Have fun and check the early fedora-list archives for dual booting options and schemes.
Jim
-- We need to teach Linus about "taste" in drivers. His core code taste is impeccable, but I'm not fond of his driver taste ;)
- Alan Cox on linux-kernel
