[ale] Installing Linux on Compaq

[mpwright at speedfactory.net (Mark Wright)]

You bought it messed up.  You are fixing it now. (sorry, couldn't  
resist)

You should be fine since the windows installation was first.  I have  
never had a Linux distro mess up a windows boot sector as long as the  
windows installer created it.  Every distro I used (back when I  
thought I needed dual booting) would go on fine after windows but  
windows would never install smoothly after I have installed Linux.

It should see the second drive (slave jumpers) and you can install  
your linux on it and leave windows on the first disk.




On Apr 7, 2007, at 12:07 PM, zeb wrote:

> I have a Compaq sr1650nx on which I wish to install Linux.  The  
> Compaq comes
> with WinXP installed on C:/ (hda1) and a "recovery partition" on  
> D:/ (hda2).
> I have a new drive that is not yet physically installed.  I want to  
> add Linux
> to this box without messing it up.  Any suggestions will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Zeb
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