On Saturday 10 September 2005 18:06, Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> This has probably been discussed a thousand time before. Darned if I can
> find this specifically though.
>
> Have dual boot system. Windows on hda & Suse on hdb. hda is small &
> dying and I bought a new much larger disk to replace it with. Now I
> believe that I can just plug it in and pop in the Windoze disk and let
> it install. (Looong time since I did a Windoze install) Then restore my
> mbr for SuSE.
>
> I would rather not do that. I don't want Windoze populating the whole
> disk. Would like to set up a small partition for Windoze and partition
> the rest of the disk for Linux. (SuSE & other distros to try out)
>
> Can I just plug in the new drive, boot SuSE from the boot CD and then go
> partition from there? Then go reinstall Windoze and restore the mbr ?
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
> Bob S.
Your new drive needs to be master on the first IDE port usually IDE0.
Start to install Windows. You should be able to select to install it on
a partition of 5 to 10 gigs. After you have set up windows on this small
partition, you can boot SUSE using a boot floppy or your SUSE cd 1 or
DVD. The SUSE install media will give you a choice to boot installed OS
the hard drive. Once you have got SUSE running, you can fix the boot
process. Using SUSE partitioning tools you can further subdivide the
space on your new Drive. I have 3 differant Distros in mine. I have a good
sized swap drive space which all my installed distros all share, since only
one is running at a time.
Richard Smoot
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