Reading data on one hard drive from another; different OS 1

[smartglass]

Hi there:
I thought it would be really clever to install a second hard drive on my PC with SUSE Linux on it, primary being XP.
My intention is to install MYSQL on the linux drive, then use apps on the XP drive to read the MySQL tables (I want to experiment with databases on the web, treating the second drive as a server).
Is this possible?
Surely the server need to be running?
Thanks in anticipation!

 

[SjrH]

Don't really know much about linux, but I thought that it had to be installed as the first O/S in a dual boot system due to it needing 3 partitions?

In any case XP wouldn't recognise the partition anyway, and your right, you would need to have you linux system running.

Why not download a copy of VMWare server and use that to host a linux guest on your system. I use it to emulate clusters and exhange setups, and vmware can host just about any O/S.

best still - vmware server is currently free