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Offline abcd200x

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Multi-Booting Over Two Hard Drives
« on: May 26, 2006, 07:32:35 PM »
I currently have two hard drives, with Win XP Pro on the first drive and the second drive is empty.  I want to multi boot Win XP Pro, Win XP MCE 2005 and Vista Beta on one drive and Suse 10.1 on the other drive.  How would I go about this using Partition Magic and a Boot Manager (preferably Boot Magic).  Thanks.

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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 07:09:21 PM »
Just run the Suse install disk.I am assuming that XP is on your first hard drive. Suse will see this as hda, and all partitions as hda1,hda2 etc. Your second hard drive is hdb1,hdb2 etc. SCSI drives are scsida, scsidb. . When it comes to the part where it whats to install Suse,make sure it is for HDB ,if the second hard drive is your empty one.If not select Custom or Expert install. Put an x in the hdb selection and hit enter. Suse will create a Swap and root partiton. Now,if you let Suse complete the install it will overwrite Windows boot.ini file and use GRUB as the bootloader. When you reboot you will see Suse and Windows as your choices. Suse will be the default OS unless you arrow down and enter Windows as your boot choice. There is a way to change the way Suse bootloads but it is way too long to post here Try http://www.aboutdebian.com/dualboot.htm There is an excellent procedure to dual boot with Windows and Debian(Linux) and how to use either GRUB or NTLR as the bootloaders. Good luck!
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