From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECTMQ-0004LI-1b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:38:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j862YP1f024410; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:34:25 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j862TkDB031740 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:29:47 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so832734nzc for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:33:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uvTQyrbBwxrYhvdRYsAWRR55mk5uprg7/q9Hqu3/gR6FzMRgGOfAVUDdpNzc/sjwnuo8coYKrJjNizYTraimlI7TQcGbu9DRu1OBjbLTJBbZ1exalOFddBkNnJ1UmH5uTTcy+JutXVSKqabnfBO70fStDZli+XYxs9iqIDLZ/zo= Received: by 10.36.220.26 with SMTP id s26mr5391604nzg; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.60.4 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b05090519334e41dbc7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:33:01 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? In-Reply-To: <20050905162126.5b27aa79@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b05090506386531316e@mail.gmail.com> <1125928173.10163.18.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> <5bdc1c8b05090507176248f356@mail.gmail.com> <20050905162126.5b27aa79@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j862TkDB031740 X-Archives-Salt: ec1992ce-f94c-4b09-960a-4d0e8be47e31 X-Archives-Hash: c1bf796e0f593ab061491a2bbde00b07 On 9/5/05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:17:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > grub and Gentoo are on /dev/hda > > Windows will go on /dev/hdc or /dev/hde > > > > I do not want windows to write anything on /dev/hda > > It will, because MS assumes you'll be using the windows bootloader. > > > I know the no one here can truly guarantee what Windows will do but > > there's little point in me doing this work if it's known to overwrite > > my main drive.. > > It won't overwrite the drive, just the part of the MBR containing the > bootloader code. You'll just need to run grub from a live CD and do > > root (hd0,X) > setup (hd0) > > to restore it. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, I'm attempting the new install of Windows but it won't go. I hope I'm just missing something easy. Thanks in advance. My system: Drive 0: Gentoo - partition 0 is boot. 100MB - 30GB - grub is on this partition - The drive has no space left - All the audio for this box is 400GB of external 1394 drives. Drive 1: For WinNT - 80GB - completely empty Drive 2: Audio Data - 80GB - GigaStudio audio sampler data files I've told Win XP to put the C: partition on drive 1. It then gives me the message: ********** To install Windows XP on the partition you have selected, Setup must write some start up files to the following disk: 29312 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on Bus 0 on atapi [MBR] However this disk does not contain a Windows compatible partition. To continue installing Windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a Windows compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no space available, delete and existing partition, and then create a new one. To return to the partition selection screen press enter. ********** Even though it says [MBR] above it won't proceed without creating at least one partition on drive 0. It appears I cannot install Windows XP on a second drive without writing 30MB to the boot drive? Is it possible to safely shrink an ext3 partition on the current drive 0 to make way for this? The only other thought that comes to mind at this point, assuming I haven't missed something obvious, is to rearrange the drives in the box and make drive 1 into drive 0. If I then installed grub on the Windows drive and fixed up fstab and the contents of grub.conf to recognize Gentoo on drive 1, would it work? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list