How to: Dual-boot Windows Vista and Linux
Re: Multiple Harddrives
jordanrw wrote:Sorry kind of new to the whole dual boot here.
I have 2 SATA drives, one is currently running vista, i want to put Fedora Core 6 on the other. How would the above procedure change?
Thank you for the help.
it wouldnt change.
install vista.
install FC6. grub (thats the bootloader FC6 uses, right?) should automatically detect this change. if it dosent, the use my post above (or ask back inn ill post some manual grub instructions.
so i tried to install fedora core 6 and hit a hiccup before i could even really get started. When it asks me where i want to install the operating system, no matter what combination of options i choose it says that i have no space for /boot. I ran fdisk on sda and sdb, sda has 3 partitions, im assuming all made by vista since i have created so such thing, one of which has a star in the boot column(i printed the info via fdisk), sdb has 1 single partition. Therefore i made the assumption that sda was the disk that i had installed vista on. The weird thing is that under the system column for all partitions of sda and sdb is says SFS. Anyways, it wont let me proceed because it says i have no space. Both drives are NTFS formtatted shown in windows.
I tried installing openSUSE 10.2, still the same problem here is what i see (im doing this by memory so i will exclude some things
Both drives are NTFS done via vista. Neither Fedora Core 6 or openSUSE 10.2 will let me deal with the drives at all. Meaning i cant go any further.
Any ideas. Also, does this mean that sda is my vista drive? How else could i find out.
Thanks.
Jordan
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fdisk /dev/sda
Partition Boot .... Id System
sda1 42 SFS
sda2 * 42 SFS
sda3 42 SFS
fdisk /dev/sdb
Partition Boot .... Id System
sdb1 42 SFS
Both drives are NTFS done via vista. Neither Fedora Core 6 or openSUSE 10.2 will let me deal with the drives at all. Meaning i cant go any further.
Any ideas. Also, does this mean that sda is my vista drive? How else could i find out.
Thanks.
Jordan
When I did the SUSE 10.x on my system, I used Acronis to create the EXT-3 or whatever that format is for linux to set the drive up for SUSE. If all you have is Vista created NTFS, you may need to use a bootable CD with a utility to set up one of the drives with whatever linux disk format you want (BUT DO NOT MESS/ADJUST THE SIZE OF THE VISTA PARTITION!!!)
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