Well, I just installed my other 80gb hard drive in as slave rather than trying to setup a RAID array right now. I am trying to decide what to do with it. I am thinking that I could have Windows on one drive and Linux on the other, but that would force me to reinstall one of them, and I would prefer not to. Is it better to have the OS' on seperate drives or the primary drive? I know in Windows I can set my virtual memory to a partition on the second drive and it will improve performace, but I have 512mb of RAM, and Linux rarely ever uses my swap space. The most I have seen used was 3%, so it would be almost useless to make a new swap partition., or would it be? How does grub deal with this?
Is there a program that could just copy my Linux partitions over to the second drive? Then I could just use fdisk on the windows boot CD to delete my ext dos partition (only has 1 game instaled at the moment since I have been using FC2 mostly, so no big loss...), then create a new one using the rest of the space on drive 1, and create logical drives from there. And then on my second drive I would have my linux installation with a whole 80gb to it self, rather than sharing 40gb with windows.
On my current setup, I had 2 Windows partitions (C and D), so I could only create 2 more for some reason during the Fedora insallation. I have a ~38gb "/" and a 2gb "swap," but was unable to create a seperate boot or usr partition. If I transfer my install to the second drive, would it be possible to change this configuration?
Or would it just be easier to make a second install of Fedora on the new drive, copy my stuff over from my current fedora install on the first drive, then edit my partitions to delete fedora on the first drive?
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Andrew Konosky wrote:
Well, I just installed my other 80gb hard drive in as slave rather than trying to setup a RAID array right now. I am trying to decide what to do with it. I am thinking that I could have Windows on one drive and Linux on the other, but that would force me to reinstall one of them, and I would prefer not to. Is it better to have the OS' on seperate drives or the primary drive? <snip>
I like to have one OS per drive, since Windows like a bad child can't play well with others it's nice to be able to just unplug the ribbon to the drive when things go wrong. Grub didn't set up my win98 drive well but I found a fix. I got FC2 going with one drive in, then added the win drive as a slave. Here is my /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=3 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.1) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.img title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img title Win 98 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1
Have fun, Tim...
Am Sa, den 31.07.2004 schrieb Timothy Payne um 7:25:
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Andrew Konosky wrote:
Well, I just installed my other 80gb hard drive in as slave rather than trying to setup a RAID array right now. I am trying to decide what to do with it. I am thinking that I could have Windows on one drive and Linux on the other, but that would force me to reinstall one of them, and I would prefer not to. Is it better to have the OS' on seperate drives or the primary drive? <snip>
I like to have one OS per drive, since Windows like a bad child can't play well with others it's nice to be able to just unplug the ribbon to the drive when things go wrong. Grub didn't set up my win98 drive well but I found a fix. I got FC2 going with one drive in, then added the win drive as a slave.
Why reinstall? Just copy one partition to the other drive and reconfigure grub. I prefer Ranish Partition Manager (www.ranish.com, freeware) for the job but you could also do it with Linux. I assume you would have to create a partition of exactly the same size and then do a "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1" in order to copy your the first drive to your second hard disk. But I really recomend you use Ranish for the job!
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