[FredLUG] Linux and SATA question.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:29 -0500, William Oakes wrote:
> One of my systems, a Gateway 700GS, is entirely SATA based. At present I
> have WinXP on the boot drive, and a second drive containing data.  I was
> thinking of adding a third SATA drive and loading Linux on it.  Is it
> possible to make this configuration a duel boot system?  How would I go
> about it?
> 
> Would I install GRUB on the original WinXP drive and point it to the boot
> sector on the Linux drive, or on the Linux drive and point it towards the XP
> drive, or is either feasible?
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My choice would be to install it on the boot sector on the original
WinXP drive (probably seen as /dev/sda in the Linux installer when you
get around to it).  I would expect /dev/sdb to be your data drive
and /dev/sdc to be the new drive, which you could partition for Linux.
I don't have any SATA machines at home currently (they're all several
years old, except for this laptop), but I think GRUB can deal with this
reasonably well.

> PS, it's great talking to you all on IRC/#fredlug.

Back atcha. ;-)

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