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Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....


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trust grub to boot Windows that trust 
Windows to boot anything that is not Windows.


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I don't get no respect.

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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    The crux of the matter -- trust
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Is debian-lenny open source?  Windoze obfuscated?  Best to have two separate boxes interconnected by ether-net.   At the very least have debian drive turned off when using Windoze of dual-boot-box.  Power to drive switch can be obtained from WWW.COOLERGUYS.COM . 

cables

cable adapters and extensions

Molex 4 Pin on/off Power Switch 12V and 5V DC

cable adapters and extensions

Serial ATA Power Adapter UV blue

Short of all that precaution,

connect the new drive:
with both drives powered up install debian onto new drive:
from old drive which will show up as media on new installation, copy all files from /home to new installation /home;
disconnect new debian drive;
install doze onto old drive;
reconnect new drive;
configure BIOS to always boot up from new drive grub from which you can easily choose doze or debian.

Never let doze see the linux.  Always let linux see everything

Good luck
!

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Dear Debian folks,

I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box.....  I have 8GB of RAM on the
machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine.  I know
many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain
things I do......

I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one
with Debian on it.   My plan is to install Windows on the new
drive......  If you installed Windows on the new drive and then
installed Debian grub would see the Windows on the other drive and
create a boot option for you to fire it up if you wanted to when you
boot the PC up.....

But if you installed debian first as I have on one disk and then add
Windows on the other one then if you boot up the machine it will load
Windows and you won't get a choice to fire up Linux (at least I don't
expect it).

I had a piece of software for Windows called Partition Magic which I
seem to have lost.   If I still had it I could install it on Windows
(after installed that OS) and it would see the Linux on the other
drive.......  I could set up its bootloading program and then when the
machine rebooted it would give me choice to boot either Linux or the
Windows......

That would be a way to load Linux first and Windows second on two
separate drives and still be able to get a choice to load either OS on
boot up of the PC......

Except of course there would be other ways because I have sent you
this email and if you were kind you might point out some of them.
I could cheat and install the Windows and then reinstall Debian and
grub would see it but I don't want to do that.   I want to keep the
old installation.

How would you modify grub to see a Windows OS that hasn't been
installed yet?  Could I use the installer in Debian to make Windows
partition on the new drive and then install the Windows on it and then
grub would see it and boot up seeing both OSes?

It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without
using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to
choice of booting it when you boot up the PC......

Suggestions welcome.

Regards

Michael Fothergill


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