Dual OS on dual HD

[SiLVerBuRn]

Hey everyone. I currently have 3 hard drives, C,G, and H.

My C drive is WinXP Pro, my H drive is my media storage. I'm going to put Mandrake on my G drive. What would be the best way to do that and configure the primary boot OS? Would it be better to install from startup or CAN mandrake even install from another OS?

[Siliconjunkie]

Yes, you can do it. It is pretty straightforward. It will replace your XP bootloader with lilo/grub and point it to /dev/hda2 or whatever your G drive is.

[nukes]

Are all these on the same physical disk?
The only problem I could see would be if the G and H drives are on the same extended partition (unlikely) in which case you would have to do some messing around.
Otherwise it should be pretty trouble-free.
Good luck.

Mandrake will install a boot loader for you. Just stick it in the MBR of your first disk. That will give you the choice of Windows or Linux at boot time and changing the default is just a matter of editing one line in a config file and (if you use lilo) running a single command.

[bullgator]

I just added a drive to install suse on. So now I have XpPro on the hdd0 and Suse on hdd1. I just switch my boot options in the bios depending on which one to play with, that way I have no worries about the dual boot thing going wrong. Better safe than sorry till I feel more comfortable in Linux.