Re: Swapping hard drives

"B. Alan Mattison" <alan.mattison@xxxxxxx> · Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:53:07 -0700

Title: RE: Swapping hard drives

It seems to me the simplest way would be to let 
lilo do the switching between os's.  It can stay on the C: drive, and when 
you want linux, it will boot to the other drive.  You can let it default to 
whichever OS you want.  If you don't intervene, it runs the default.  
I'm doing that right now with RH8 and XP.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Weber 
  Walter M 
  To: 'blinux-list@redhat.com' 
  Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:09 
  AM
  Subject: RE: Swapping hard drives

  Hi Rudy, 
     Good point! But, if I do that (and that sounds 
  like the wisest path), I couldn't have a dual booting program, could 
  I/
     Unless, maybe, say, the machine boots to Windows 
  and, then, somehow, I can switch to the D: drive, I can clean the memory and 
  boot to Linux. Is that possible?
  Walt 

  -----Original Message----- 
From: A. R. 
  Vener [mailto:salt@aero-vision.com] 

Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:06 AM 
To: blinux-list@redhat.com 
Subject: Re: 
  Swapping hard drives 

  If there are any scripts or paths on the old drive 
  which 
refer to the C: drive they will no longer work 
  once 
that drive becomes the D: drive. 
  Better to keep it as C: and  just install your new drive 
  as D: 

  rudy 
  On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:50AM -0500, rick watson 
  wrote: 
> 
>    Hi Walt, 
> 

> 
> 
>    this should work fine. You might have to move 
  jumpers on the old drive 
>    and 
  plug it into the slave part of the cable. If you are doing the 

>    install yourself, let me know and I 
  can give you some pointers. 
> 
> 
> 
>    rick 
> 

> 
> 
>    -----Original Message----- 
>    _From:_ Weber Walter M [mailto:Walter.M.Weber@irs.gov] 

>    _Sent:_ Friday, December 13, 2002 9:21 
  AM 
>    _To:_ 
  'BLINUX-LIST@REDHAT.COM' 
>    
  _Subject:_ Swapping hard drives 
> 
>      Hi All, 
> 

>         I 
  don't see anyway I'll be able to buy a PC next year for home 
>      use; so, I wonder whether this idea 
  will work? 
> 
>         My wife has a PC 
  at home, with Windows on it. Can I move the 
>      current hard drive to another drive 
  bay and have a new hard drive 
>      installed in the original's place, 
  having Linux installed on it 
>      plus a program launcher which offers 
  the choice of booting up with 
>      Linux or Windows? If my wife chooses 
  Windows, wouldn't the 
>      launching program boot from the old 
  C drive which would now be 
>      given another letter? In other 
  words, there's nothing on the 
>      current C drives which irrevocably 
  mark them as C, is there? 
> 
>      Thanks, 
> 

>      Walt 

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