Re: use second hard drive to boot from?
Hello,
I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am
considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into
my box to boot from.> Is it possible to install a second hard drive into
something like the floppy
drive bay?> > Thanks
Yes you can install a second HD on your computer. There usually is a
bay for it, your existing HD cable should have two connectors, one for
each of your drives. Then there is the connector for the power. You
have to make sure the jumpers are set correctly on the new drive also.
How exactly do you want to set this up? Are you going to run Windows
only on the first drive and Linux on the new drive? Or Windows and
Linux on the first drive and distribute some of Debian onto the seconddrive?
hth,kent
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Actually, I was planning on creating my own linux distribution on the second
hard drive. So far on my existing hard drive, I use Debian and Windows. My
new distribution will only take up maybe 2 gigs, so the rest of the hard
drive will probably be used for storage. So I'll probably end up creating a
2 gig ext2 partition, maybe a 125 MB swap partition, and and then one or two
vfat partitions (so that Windows and Linux can see it and write to it).
Physically, I have a CD drive, a CD-R drive and a 3.5 floppy. I have a bay
right under the 3.5 drive which is the same size as the 3.5. Could I fit
the second hard drive in there?
Thanks again,
Andrew
PS. Sorry, this is a bit of a long message.
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