linux question
 

I'm about to try out mandrake and have the following question.

The system i'm going to install it on is win 98 and has two hard drives, the first having windows and being the master the second being the slave blank and waiting to have linux out on it.

question is will mandrake let me install to the second drive and set up as a dual boot system or do I need to do some other prep work on the machine before i get going.

Yep, just pick the advanced option instead of the usual "overwrite Windows" etc.
Choose the graphical bootloader and install it on the primary mbr (hd0).
The disk you will want to install Mandrake on though will be hd1 and use EXT3.

nice one cheers:D

Oops, there's the Amiga in me coming out - it happens when you run 3 OS on one computer. :ninja:

What I mean is not "hd0" but "hda0" and "hda1". :dunce:

EDIT: I think...:erm:

/me boots into Mandrake to check...

I thought the amy used DF0: and DF1: for floppies and DH0: for Hard drives? :D

:confused:

OK, now I'm really lost.
Which OS uses hd0?

You're right though Lord and I need more sleep or something... :p

Linux :D

the device may be /dev/hda0 but it is actually hd0,0 for the first hard drive first partition, hd0,1 for the second partition and hd1,0 for second drive first partition etc :D

It can do :)

I have DH0: to DH4: and D2H0: to D2H5: (plus dosC: to dosF: drives which are FAT32 formatted) - but they're generally accessed under their volume names rather than logical names.

He's got two hard drives though so it depends on which channel the drives are attached to.

Primary master: hda
Primary slave: hdb
Secondary master: hdc
...etc

Then the drives are divided into partitions,

hda0 for the first partition on the primary master, hda1, hda2 etc etc

Show's how often I boot into Linux. :D

I have all my servers installed on Windows for dev stuff so I use that most of the time, the Linux install is just for getting used to it.