Kevin Kofler wrote:
Florin Andrei <florin <at> andrei.myip.org> writes:
I am planning to keep the existing PATA hard-drive and not reinstall FC6
(I will upgrade to FC7 when it comes out), but instead I'll use a
SATA-PATA adapter between drive and mobo. The problem, of course, is
that PATA is /dev/hda while SATA will be /dev/sda
F7 will use /dev/sda for everything (even PATA) anyway, so maybe a better plan
is to wait for F7, do the upgrade (letting Anaconda worry about the hda->sda
migration), then do the hardware upgrade.
I was hoping I don't have to wait, but it may happen that way, I can't
find my XP CD and license, and based on past experience I don't want to
install Windows after I install Linux - I did that once and Windows took
unwarranted liberties with the partition table, thereby trashing Linux
and giving me a serious case of antimicrosoftitis.
So I'd rather just reserve space on the drive for Linux, then install
Windows in the remaining free space when I find the CD, then go back and
fully install Linux, with grub on the superblock of the /boot partition.
This strategy seems to work pretty well.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
