Yeah, good instincts because that's a really poor idea in terms of boot records anyway. If you move drives in/out your drive order will change and mess up your booting each time you add/remove drives and start up again. Boot into Windows again and remove any partitions on the one drive that you have reserved for Fedora so it is the only that will show completely available. Normal 'druid' (the installation tool for partitioning drives) behavior is not to erase any existing partitions so if you have a hard drive with no partitions at all, it will be obvious which drive it is. Craig On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 10:49 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote: > Thanks. I thought of that myself but I first wanted to make sure there > wasn't an better way > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: William Stock <wstock@xxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 1:09:29 PM > Subject: Re: Installing Frdora 14 > > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 08:46 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote: > > I have a new system with three identical hard drives. One with > windows > > Xp pro, one with my data and one initialized but not formatted for > > Fedora 14. > > When I try to install Fedora from a bootable CD Fedora lists all > > drives with the same part number and I can't tell the difference. > How > > can I be sure that the dirve I pick to > > format for Fedora is the right one? > > Even with different drives I have trouble - got to write everything > down > first. With identical drives I'd unplug the ones I want untouched > until > after I got F14 installed. Then I'd plug them back in and adjust > whatever needed to be adjusted. > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
