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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help
Date: 2002-09-03 10:51:19 PST

> I've asked this question before and got answers
> on how to set up a dual boot system with
> two partitions....only problem is, I don't have
> two partitions I have two separate hard drives,

I've just recently setup a machine to do that, and I had the same question. It turns out that two drives is handled exactly like two partitions on the same drive, except the device names are different. Like, instead of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 (2 partitions on one drive), they are something like /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 (2 partitions on two different drives.)

So, you can follow all the instructions for two partitions on the same drive, but just change the partition names to reflect your second drive.

(The one catch I can think of—it you want the second drive to be the drive that booting happens on, you need to mess with your BIOS to do that.)

> one with Mandrake 8.1, one with Windows ME.

I did this with NT on the first drive and RedHat on the second, but it should be similar.

Duke