Re: Pretty much a Debian newbie

[Chris Lale]

Harold Henderson wrote:

This week I'd like to put in some hard drives &
configure them with grub (
or is it lilo?)
Is it possible to have Debian 3.0 on the primary
hard drive, windows98 on the second and Mandrake
on the third?

The easiest way is to install Windows98 first on the primary hard disc (hda in linux). It will create a primary partition (the first on the disc) and install itsef into it. (This is hda1 in linux.)

Then install Linux. Debian's installation program (dbootstrap) will call cfdisk to create the partitions you need - at minimum a swap partition and a Linux partition. The installation manual is a little heavy going but invaluable:

http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

Other official documentation is at
http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/

If you have installed Win98 and Mandrake first, Debian's installation asks you if you wish to include them in the LILO boot menu.

This is the easiest way if you are starting from scratch. You can always configure an existing setup later.

I do have three hard drives that are
7.8 so they are too small to partition each.

7.8 Mb? Should be fine. Even 7.8kB could be useful.

The only thing I can think of is to have Debian's
bootloader taking care of all three. Well, I can
do this with three windows98 harddrives but I'm
going to need some assistance with this
project.

Try http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ for things to do after installation.

Hth (Hope that helps),

Chris
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