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Hi!
I would like to
install FC3 on a second hard disk. I understand that this is possible
with almost all distributions. The question I have is - If I want to do
this without causing problems with my current installation of RedHat 9
and Windows XP on the first (original) drive what do I need to do with
grub and grub.conf to make sure that after installation of FC3 I can
still boot into RedHat or Windows XP whenever I need to. I would still
want grub installed on the original first drive, but have it point to
FC3 on the second disk so that I can optionally boot FC3 or my original
RedHat/XP. Booting from floppy or other such work around would be messy
so I would prefer not to go down this route.
I understand that it would be best to create a separate swap and boot
partition on the second drive, which is fine by me. I have not tried it
yet so I am guessing that if I start the FC3 install process, somewhere
down the line when it installs grub, it would simply overwrite my
current grub configuration. Is this right? If so what will I need to do
to protect my current grub config? Will simply copying it to a safe
place, then restoring it after installing FC3 and then manually editing
it to add the FC3 parameters be the correct thing to do?
And by the way, what will be the correct grub.conf settings to boot
from the second hard disk?
I would appreciate any help on this question.
Stephen Ng
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