fwd: hello and perhaps some help

[Regina Woodard]

Hi there. I actually signed up for the sounder list and the listmaster said
I should probably address my question here, so I'm going to go ahead and
paste it here -

THe gist is this - I would like to install SOME form of linux (at this
point, it doesn't even matter which one) on a second hard drive. THough my
primary master drive is 80GB, I really don't want to have two OS on that
drive, hence the second.


> As for the specs of my computer, I would like this placed on a second
> hard drive NOT the master (so basically the slave) The slave is a
> Fujitsu limited with 1.96GB; I am using an internal NIC which is Belkin
> 2003; NTFS; nVidia sound card with Hercules drivers....again, I want
> this to be on the second drive and theoretically, when I boot from the
> CD, shouldn't it do what Windows does and ask which drive I want it on?
> My computer is set to boot from the CD, but at least with Suse, it
> didn't even pick up that I had two hard drives.

 Okay, so sorry about this very long post, but I truly am hoping to make
> this work. Any suggestions are appreciated and even though I am a BIT,
> please take the time if possible to explain this as though I'm a five
> year old. All the searches I've done for this problem either are too
> confusing or don't address my problem and there doesn't seem to be a
> solution.


As it stands, I got another reply that said I wouldn't have enough room on
the 1.96GB drive, but again, I only want to test Linux to see if I would
like it or not. THe screenshots I've seen makes me want to, but I don't want
to try it if it means going out and buying another hard drive or worse,
re-partitioning the 80GB and deleting everything on that drive.

Any help?

Gina
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