Warty install went very wrong HELP!!

[Le grand pinguin]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:14:44PM -0500, wallijonn wrote:
> 
> Boy, is your friend going to be mad at you.
> 
> It sounds like you wiped out his disk.
> 
> Before installing Linux you have to backup all the data, wipe the HD,
> create two partitions, install windows to the first partition, restore
> his data to that partition, reboot, install Linux to the second
> partition.
> 
> The other way to do it is to buy another HD, disconnect the Windows
> disk, install Linux to the new disk, connect the Windows disk as
> Master, change the Linux disk to Slave, set your boot HD through the
> BIOS.

Is there any reason (other than popular folklore) to go through such
contortions? I've installed dual-boot (well, actually triple-boot)
systems often enough - without all the hardware fiddling you describe.
It _is_ rather convenient to use a second harddisk but there is no
need at all to disconnect the windows hd. NOTE: the disk swapping
you describe actually creates a lot of inconveniences: you install
Linux to what then is hda(n) - all entries in the fstab et al. will
refer to hda(n). Once you swap you need to manually tweak both 
Grub/Lilo and the fstab entries.

 Just my 0.02 $

  Ralf Mattes

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