On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > You will want to be sure you are partitioning the correct drive. Usually > it is easy to distinguish between them because the drive containing > Windows will probably have an NTFS filesystem on it. You should also > double-check what the drive designation for Debian is (sda or sdb) when > you finalise partitioning.
Hi Brian, I'm definitely partitioning the correct drive (measure twice cut once). Thanks for the critical reminder. Surely do not want to partition the wrong drive. :-) Drive designation for Debian is sdb. > At the GRUB install stage you will be told what other operating systems > have been detected and that GRUB will be installed to the MBR of the > first hard drive. What it actually means is that GRUB will be installed > to the MBR of /dev/sda. You will only say yes to this if Debian is on > /dev/sda. Ok, thank you for letting me know what to expect during the install. GRUB will be installed to Debian's drive which is the 2nd drive (sdb). > Nice planning. There is sufficient room on /. I'd do without the boot > partition but it does no harm. I must use the boot partition. I will be dual booting windows and debian. As a last step, I will change the boot order in BIOS when all is completed. I will boot to sdb drive which will present me with a menu as to what OS I would like to boot (windows or Debian). See this link. It has 2 pages. Please read the end of page 2: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on-a-computer-with-2-hard-drives/ > For the use you will put the OS to I'd stick to your plan. It has the > benefit of simplicity and ease of implementation. Thank you for helping Brian Wally -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caldxikoxfxurommcs9marejfoaxxbwez_ixrmoofbyvudfp...@mail.gmail.com
