Installing RedHat 6.0 on a secondary hard drive.

[JProg]

Hi Everyone,

Currently I am trying to load RedHat v6.0 onto a secondary hard drive on my home PC. Whenever I begin the instillation I only get so far as the Fdisk/Druid section.
The problem that I am having is that the secondary hard drive called hdb by linux cannot be read. This is really frustrating as my instillation simply stops and I am really stuck.

I have had it suggested to me that I should remove the connection to my primary hard drive and temporarily set up my secondary drive as the master. From there I could attempt to load RedHat, and if instillation is successful I could then reconnect my original hard drive and make my secondary drive slave again. Then finally I could load LILO once the original disk configuration has been obtained.

Is this suggestion plausible. I do not want the Linux instillation to write any data to the first sector of the hard drive because the secondary hard drive already has Windows XP on it, and I obviously do not want to mess that up.

Does RedHat write to the first sector of the hard drive or is that LILO's job? Any suggestions will be greatly apprecitated.

Thanks

P.S.: The actual error message that I receive is as follows: An error occured reading the partition table for the block device hdb. The error was: no such file or directory.

 

[JavaDude32]

Hmm, it seems like you could set your slave hard drive up as primary, follow the installation procedure for installing linux on a hard disk that already has an OS. I'm wondering though, what are you running on your primary, couldn't you just install your Win XP on your primary and then have the secondary hard drive free for Linux? As for booting from the secondary at all, you'll need to have your root partition within the first 1024 sectors I believe. That might pose a problem, I don't know. Hopefully this has been at least a little helpful.

JavaDude32

BTW Lilo's job is to select which bootable partition to boot, given in your case Win XP and Linux if I understand that right.