linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Questions of Mint/Ubuntu install with WinXP

I think my memory slipped back to when Linux wouldn't install to anything other than the first drive like Windows, even worse "DOS." My Google search didn't say that had changed and the screenshots in the many reviews didn't mention that or I missed it.

I even tried to install on one of my computers first, only to have to exchange a DVD drive, spring broke on the drawer, then I found out my PCI-X SATA controller is bad. On his computer, I had to pull the CD-ROM, since his DVD/CD-RW wouldn't read right, someone even wrote on it "LG Sucks," I made it the slave for now.

My Mint Forum Log-in was discontinued, so I had to find an email address through a review to hopefully have it activated again. I had stopped using it, since I got used to Ubuntu's Gnome menus, but that is changing in the future in some way, or so I read.

Thanks for the assistance,
Joan in Reno

--- On Sun, 3/13/11, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:

From: J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Questions of Mint/Ubuntu install with WinXP
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:11 AM

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:10, dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:

> Joan--

>

> Why would you want to do that to begin with?

>

> The boot manager will have to be installed on the first drive anyway; it will not care which drive either OS is installed on. Thus, you

> should be able to leave the XP where it is and install Linux on the second drive if you wish.

Just as an aside to consider, will XP even boot if it's not on the

first partition on first hard disk? It's been so long since I messed

with an XP system, but that's something to think about. It used to be

that Windows was coded so that it had to reside on the first partition

on the first (Primary Master) hard disk, otherwise, it would not boot

at all. I want to say that carried over into XP and didn't get fixed

until maybe Vista, but I'm not sure. As I said, it's been ages since

I last messed with XP.

Cheers,

Jeff

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