On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my > gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). > > I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan > on using as the windows drive. > > Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding linux after windows; in my case > I have a working gentoo linux system in place that I don't want to sack, > I'd rather just add windows to the new drive. > > Anyone out there have a good pointer for me? > > Thanks! > > Dave
In the past I've had Windows on /dev/hdb1 and used grub to swap the two drives so Windows thinks it is still on the primary hard drive. I no longer have a use for Windows though. So good luck with it. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 20:18:38 up 1 day, 11:52, 10 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
