RH and XP

[Joel Hammer]

You really don't have to have ide0 as your only connected IDE device
when installing RH. However, I would just unplug the XP hard drive so
there is no way you can damage it while installing RH on ide0.

You can't (never say never) switch your drives back once you install RH
on ide0. This is because lilo has installed the boot sector on ide0. If
you switch drives after installing RH on ide0, the bios may not find
the boot sector. 

     However, getting ahead of ourselves, if you want to experiment, if
     you installed RH as IDE0, then switched cables with the XP and RH
     drives, and have a new bios, maybe you can tell the bios to make the
     2nd hard drive your first boot device so it can find the boot sector
     on IDE1. I haven't tried that.  That mapping trick in lilo.conf
     gives you a software switch of ide0 and ide1 when you boot XP.


The kernel is not 7.2. That is the name of the redhat distribution.

Regarding Net Llama's comment, if you want to learn linux, there is
nothing wrong with using an older distribution. The newer distros are
hiding more and more of the nuts and bolts from the user and are trying to
be more and more windows like, in my limited experience, and are thus
harder to fool with. For example, I cannot burn a new kernel with lindows,
perhaps the most "user friendly" distro, because I cannot figure out
(read: Won't spend the time.) how to use intrd.

Joel

 On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Koko1 wrote:
> 
> Joel:
> 
> Thanks for the info.  So, you're saying I unplug my ide0, CD/RW and CD-ROM,
> and see if the Maxtor (current ide1) loads up alright on ide0?  Then if it
> works, I switch ide0 and ide1, and then I edit the lilo.conf file to reflect
> what you sent me?  Is 7.2 the same kernel that you have in your example for
> your machine?  Does LILO give the option of XP and RH at startup?
> 
> Sorry for all the questions.  I'm at that difficult spot between raw newbie
> and whatever the next level is.  Plus I don't want to have to screw up my XP
> drive, I have a lot on there and so do the kids.  Thanks again.
> 
> Kirk
>