Re: NT Installation - Seperate Drive Question

[Corey Ralph <corey@trellian.com>]

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:54  PM, amg wrote:
> Can I essentially:
> -"detach" my debian-installed drives
> -attach a "blank" drive (it would be the last IDE slot)
> -install XP onto that disk (letting XP muck around with the MBR (on 
> it's
> own drive))
> -re-attach the debian drives (leaving the XP drive attached, at the end
> of the drive order)

That should all be fine, as long as XP doesn't get upset about the 
changed order of the disks.

> -add some information to LILO (to point to the newly installed XP
> system)

See the bottom of the default /etc/lilo.conf, it has an example of 
booting another OS.  Basically you want something like:

other=/dev/hdb1
  label="Win XP"

Everything else in there should be fine as-is.  Then run lilo.


Cheers