organicbmx
Oct 14 2005, 09:57 PM
| | I am planning to get a second hd drive for my pc and run gentoo as well as xp. Is it possible to boot from a secondary drive or should i install gentoo on the end of my primary hd and then mount /home on the second one?
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yordan
Oct 14 2005, 10:13 PM
I have three disks, I installed Mandrake on the third disk without problem, probably gentoo should be able to do the same thing. I think Mandrake installed everything on the third disk except the boot part of lilo on the Master Boot Record in order to have the dual boot working correctly. And everything worked fine with Mandrake, directly at my first trial, so should it also work for you. Hope this helped Yordan
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qwijibow
Oct 15 2005, 11:19 PM
As far as linux is concerned it doesnt matter.. with linux you can have as many or as few partitons as you like, and you can put the partitons anywhere you like. Windows somtimes gets upset if it isnt on the first partiton of the primary drive, but the linux boot loader (GRUB) can fix that should you need to move windows to anouther partiton.
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