RedM Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I have WinXP SP2 on one drive and I want to install a second drive and put a version of Linux on it. Do the jumper settings need faffing with or has technology moved on? How do I get it to offer a choice of OS? Is it a BIOS thing? Will either OS be able to see the other and/or access the other drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You should be able to select which disc to boot using your bios... but if you install grub you will be able to dual boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm assuming that Grub will run from whichever drive is designated as Master or does it need to be on the Linux drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You would need to run grub on the primary drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just been reading about it on Wikipedia. Thanks for the tip.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 If you already have WinXP or Windows Fista installed on a single drive you should be able to add another drive and install your fav distro, the boot manager (ie grub) should then provide options for your new linux install and windows on startup. Once linux is loaded you should also be able to mount the windows drive but not the other way round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 but not the other way round You can actually http://www.fs-driver.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 Once linux is loaded you should also be able to mount the windows drive but not the other way round Do I take that to mean that I could access info on the XP drive from the Linux drive but XP can't see or use the Linux drive? If I don't mount the XP drive then are it's contents safe from anything that might get though the Linux firewall? The missus has just okayed the purchase of a new HDD so it looks like I'm up all night downloading Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 You can actually http://www.fs-driver.org/ Ooh that looks handy. We have oodles of pics/music on the XP drive and if we could keep them there then we could install Linux on a smaller drive and not have to copy the files across. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Do I take that to mean that I could access info on the XP drive from the Linux drive but XP can't see or use the Linux drive? Yeah Linux will be able to read/write to your XP partition fine. Windows can't access the Linux partition unless you install the driver I linked to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You can actually http://www.fs-driver.org/ Ohhh thats a new one on me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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