I just bought a new hard Ultra-ATA hard drive for my system, which already has a SCSI drive with Linux. I plan to format the new drive as an NTFS partition, and to install Windows NT on it (the SCSI drive has a FAT16 partition on /dev/sda1, which I'll use for transferring files between the two worlds). I would like to continue using LILO for booting. I have a couple of questions:
Is installing NT on the new hard drive (/dev/hde) going to do anything nasty to my existing SCSI drive? I assume that WinNT will make itself the OS that boots by default, but I plan to recover by booting from a Debian CD and rerunning LILO. Is there any reason that that would not work? I've seen some baroque setups for multi-booting which have LILO hiding partitions, moving IDE drive IDs around, etc., but is that sort of thing really necessary? I mean, sure, Microsoft is evil and all, but it's hard for me to believe that NT will go and destroy other partitions just because they're not in a format it understands. -Randy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
