Multi- Disk drive installation

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Guest

I plan on having 3 drives in a system I will be building in a week. My
scheme is a boot/shared drive as ide0:0, set to boot, have ide0:1 as a Fedora
Linux distro, and a sata drive for Windows.

I would like Windows to manage the boot process, the problem is, I couldn't
find anything in my MCSE course book (exam 70-270) how to separate the boot
and system partitions (I know that the names are reversed). Can I just copy
the files to the active boot partition, or is there a switch I have to when I
install. I plan on booting from CD, though I could just get a DOS boot disk
if need be.

Thank you for your help.
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

Dual booting Windows XP or 2000 with Linux
http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html

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| I plan on having 3 drives in a system I will be building in a week. My
| scheme is a boot/shared drive as ide0:0, set to boot, have ide0:1 as a Fedora
| Linux distro, and a sata drive for Windows.
|
| I would like Windows to manage the boot process, the problem is, I couldn't
| find anything in my MCSE course book (exam 70-270) how to separate the boot
| and system partitions (I know that the names are reversed). Can I just copy
| the files to the active boot partition, or is there a switch I have to when I
| install. I plan on booting from CD, though I could just get a DOS boot disk
| if need be.
|
| Thank you for your help.
 
G

Guest

The problem isn't with using GRUB or LILO, I prefer not to use them so that I
can remotely choose which OS to boot from (RD or VNC into, change, reboot).
The uestion is how to separate the system and boot partition in an XP
installation. Can I just move the required files to the active partition
(ntldr, boot.ini, etc)
 

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