yeah.. i have two different hard drives, both E/IDE, and they are not on the
same cable.. one is attached by cable to a Ultra IDE Controller thing, (the
maxtor) the other attached by a cable to the motherboard.. what do you mean
by the end connector?thank you sooo much for helping me! thank you thank you
thank you!
dominic
ps what does HTH stand for? ;)
> Let me see if I can unscramble this properly.
>
> Start with the hardware. You have two physical hard drives, both E/IDE,
> correct? If they are on the same cable, one must be jumpered as the master
> drive (on the end connector) and the other must be the slave drive (on the
> middle connector). If they are on two separate IDE ports, they must both be
> jumpered as master and be on the end connector of each cable.
>
> Assuming that's OK. install win95 on the master drive/primary port
> (that's c: or /dev/hda1). Let win95 put its loader in the MBR. You can then
> install linux where you want, for example, /dev/hda2, and make your second
> drive a large /home partition (/dev/hdb1). Whatever you want will work.
> When the installation asks where to install lilo, tell it to put it in the
> MBR of /hda. Since the linux partition table knows about the fat16 or fat32
> partition with win95, it will set up lilo.conf appropriately.
>
> I have three hard drives on one system. Two are EIDE/UDMA drives and the
> other is a regular EIDE drive (all WD, by the way). Linux sees them all
> without any problem. In my case, win95 is in /dev/hda1, dos7 in /dev/hdb1
> and linux in /dev/hdc1. lilo.conf is in the MBR of /hda.
>
> HTH,
>
> Rich
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