I want to install RH linux 9.0 and windows XP SP1 on a computer with
two hard disks.
The primary disk is 160GB and the secondary disk is 80GB.
Previously with only one disk, I install linux and windows XP on the
same disk with dual boot capability so that during bootup I select
either linux and windows XP.

With two disks, I wonder if I install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
on disk 2,
and change the boot disk sequence (order) in the BIOS
to select either disk 1 or disk 2 to boot first,
will this scheme work?
i.e. "disk 1 first" will boot windows XP and "disk 2 first" will boot
linux.
What is the advantage and disadvantage of this scheme?

On 2 Jan 2004 09:28:30 -0800, TingChong wrote:
> I want to install RH linux 9.0 and windows XP SP1 on a computer with
> with two disks, I wonder if I install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
> on disk 2,
> and change the boot disk sequence (order) in the BIOS
> to select either disk 1 or disk 2 to boot first,
> will this scheme work?

Yes.

> i.e. "disk 1 first" will boot windows XP and "disk 2 first" will boot
> linux.
> What is the advantage and disadvantage of this scheme?

Install boot loader in mbr.
Tooo much writting of rom.
Just like you boot today execpt it will pick second drive.
You do know that you can set which default OS to boot if you like.

Should I use the scheme "install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
on disk 2" instead of "install both windows XP and linux on disk 1"?

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> On 2 Jan 2004 09:28:30 -0800, TingChong wrote:
> > I want to install RH linux 9.0 and windows XP SP1 on a computer with
> > with two disks, I wonder if I install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
> > on disk 2,
> > and change the boot disk sequence (order) in the BIOS
> > to select either disk 1 or disk 2 to boot first,
> > will this scheme work?
>
> Yes.
>
> > i.e. "disk 1 first" will boot windows XP and "disk 2 first" will boot
> > linux.
> > What is the advantage and disadvantage of this scheme?
>
> Install boot loader in mbr.
> Tooo much writting of rom.
> Just like you boot today execpt it will pick second drive.
> You do know that you can set which default OS to boot if you like.

On 8 Jan 2004 15:13:21 -0800, TingChong wrote:
> Should I use the scheme "install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
> on disk 2" instead of "install both windows XP and linux on disk 1"?

It is up to you. Only you can decide what is the best usage of the
disks. You need about ~4gig for a linux install. With linux's boot
loader you can boot several different linuxs on different disks
and still boot XP. You can even have XP as the default OS to boot.
You can install the linux boot loader on the mbr of disk 1 and install
on disk 2 and the rom still boots from disk 1.

If you plan on writting files from linux to XP create a fat32 logical
disk so linux can write to it. Mandrake linux can read NTFS out of the box.

Before the linux install, use the micro$oft tools to create the
free/unformated/unknown partition where you plan to install linux.

http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/Mandrak.../Starter.html/

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