i'd love to do it, but i know fuck all about perl and nearly as much about php! i think learning perl would kick ass though, but i don't know that i'd be able to live up to the expectations that i suspect voidmain has!
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Originally posted by void main:
Which physical drive you install Windows on has nothing to do with the drive letters.
Yes, i realise that, although the added complication arises of it not actually getting the drive letters in the right order depending on how old they are. for ages i had an E: partition that came physically before the D: partition purely because the E: partition was newer.
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But if you install on "D:" the "D:" gets spread all over the registry and configuration files so you would have an EXTREMELY difficult time trying to remove the first drive at that point.
well that's what i thought, and what i was trying to convey when i asked about it.
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Now you could remove the first drive, then use Parition Magic to shrink the partition on the second drive enough and move the parition to the back of the disk, then create a small FAT parition on the beginning of the disk so it will show up to Windows as the "C:" drive, and allow you to boot your Windows up on D: which is the drive it was installed on. That "might" work but it's a pain in the ass and ugly.
fucking right! now i understand that that was what imthesponge was talking about up there! no way! that's an untidy way to do it, and now i understand it, i would have no truck with it.
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Linux (or any other UNIX) doesn't have problems like this because it does not use drive letters or reference any pariticular partition in the layout of the file system. The only place the file system layout is associated with a physical parition name is in the /etc/fstab (or equivelant). It is relatively easy to move partitions or drives around and then just change it in the "fstab" file in *NIX.
and you could really just mount any partition at any point on your / filesystem that had a directory waiting for it. Sounds a lot easier than all this registry nonsense.
So then, the solution to how to install linux first and then windows, is to install linux on the second hard drive (which is the big one) first, and then format the first (the small one) hard drive as fat32 and install windows on it. then use the linux boot floppy to load linux and edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo, yes?
did i miss anything out?