Subject: Re: adding a hard drive
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 09:04:34 AKST
The gentoo install docs are quite good, actually; they should make it
relatively easy to make this work. With that said, my advice would be to
partition the drive however you want, then install gentoo on it, all
while it's attached to the system. The gentoo guide to the grub step
should actually give you enough information to add gentoo to SuSE's grub
config so you can tri-boot.
~Mac~
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:17, Jim Dory wrote:
> Here's a basic question or two I hope someone can help with.
>
> I have a dual boot system right now with Win98SE and Suse 8.2 on one
> harddrive. I had only given the windows partition about 1 gig for the
> operating system then I was going to add this other hard drive, a
> Western Digital 80 gigger for more space for data, maybe split between
> the Suse and windows. But since it is IDE and my board is SATA, it
> didn't work until now when I finally got an adapter.
>
> Now my thoughts have changed a bit. I would still like to give maybe 20
> gigs to Windows so I can edit sound files (the main reason I've stayed
> with win98 - better at latency), but now I thought maybe I would try
> another distribution. I've had nothing but trouble trying to get sound
> programs working on Suse - I've read about a breakage with gtk and glib
> or somesuch - having trouble getting ardour and others to compile.
> Anyway, I thought maybe I would leave suse as my regular desktop stuff
> and load another distribution to experiment with sound on, before I
> break my main workstation. So I grabbed some Gentoo iso's, though maybe
> something like debian or deMudi or whatever it is called would be
> better, I don't know. I'm a noob. But I've heard about Alan Cox's?
> latency patches for later kernels and would like to try that.
>
> So the question is: this IDE harddrive is mounted in a tray I can turn
> off and on, and I'm struggling with a good way to proceed. Should I
> attempt to try to install Gentoo (or whatever dist) so I triple boot?
> Win/Suse/Gentoo? Suse is using Grub, which I know little about. Or
> should I just format the WD drive for Gentoo to experiment on and
> disconnect the other sata drive when I want to use it? Seems a bit
> clunky to do that but within my abilities. Whereas getting Gentoo
> installed alongside Suse may be a recipe for disaster with my lack of
> knowledge.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated. thanks, Jim
>
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