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Linux 5720 Notebook with Linux on 2nd drive?

post #1 of 5
12/20/05 at 8:47pm
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I'm very happy running Gentoo as my main OS. I want to install Windows XP for one or two games that don't play under Cedega just yet though. I ordered the second 120Gb drive for the 5720 and I put it in. I boot off a USB CD-ROM drive to start the Windows install, but Windows will not install with out being able to write to the SATA (primary hard drive) of the machine!

Is there any way of getting around this? I really don't want Windows touching my primary drive in any way. Since I only plan to use Windows once in a while I just want it on the spare drive so I can also just format the drive once the games I'm playing are either old enough that I don't care, or will run under Cedega.
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post #2 of 5
12/20/05 at 10:10pm
Here's an idea. Not the prettiest but it WILL work. Pull the Gentoo disk and gently place it aside. Put your secondary in as the primary. Install windows as you would normally. Then when it's through, pull it out and set it back up as secondary. Slap in the lovely Gentoo drive and tweak grub.conf. It's been done before. Personally I do it the other way around. I leave windows as primary as I used to use this for work, and Gentoo on the secondary.
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post #3 of 5
12/21/05 at 12:54am
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Here's an idea. Not the prettiest but it WILL work. Pull the Gentoo disk and gently place it aside. Put your secondary in as the primary. Install windows as you would normally. Then when it's through, pull it out and set it back up as secondary. Slap in the lovely Gentoo drive and tweak grub.conf. It's been done before. Personally I do it the other way around. I leave windows as primary as I used to use this for work, and Gentoo on the secondary.
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post #4 of 5
12/23/05 at 4:15pm
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Originally Posted by bsmith
Here's an idea. Not the prettiest but it WILL work. Pull the Gentoo disk and gently place it aside. Put your secondary in as the primary. Install windows as you would normally. Then when it's through, pull it out and set it back up as secondary. Slap in the lovely Gentoo drive and tweak grub.conf. It's been done before. Personally I do it the other way around. I leave windows as primary as I used to use this for work, and Gentoo on the secondary.
This worked. Do you have a config for grub to boot windows? Right now I just keep going into the bios and switching what drive it boots off.

I use Linux for work and everyday things, Windows is just for a game here and there. I feel dirty having Windows on my machine. :P
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post #5 of 5
12/23/05 at 6:04pm
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html#q10 enjoy. Post up if you still have questions.
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