Two hard drives... some questions

[danbo]

i couldn't find a post directly addressing my question, so:

I have 1 hard drive with windows XP pro installed on it and i am going to install slackware 9.1 on another hard drive (both hdd's are 40gb each) and i am also going to install the boot partition on the linux hard drive and use GRUB as my boot loader. I am wondering if i have to set one hard drive as master and the other as slave, and which one to master(would it be the drive with the boot loader)? or would i need to set both hdd's as master because they will never be used both at the same time?

then for my BIOS boot sequence i would have:

1st: FLOPPY
2nd: HDD (with the boot loader on it)
3rd: CD ROM

would this work?

thanks

[lordnothing]

the master/slave jumpers have to do with the way the IDE bus sees the hdd's.. not how they boot... the first hdd on your ide bus is the primary master, the second is the primary slave. the third ide device is the secondary master and the fourth is the secondary slave.

you will want to put GRUB on the MBR of the primary master.

[danbo]

the master/slave jumpers have to do with the way the IDE bus sees the hdd's.. not how they boot... the first hdd on your ide bus is the primary master, the second is the primary slave. the third ide device is the secondary master and the fourth is the secondary slave.

i never said the jumpers affected how the hdd's boot, but thanks for your answer. its all clear now

[sarumont]

the master/slave jumpers have to do with the way the IDE bus sees the hdd's.. not how they boot... the first hdd on your ide bus is the primary master, the second is the primary slave. the third ide device is the secondary master and the fourth is the secondary slave.

i never said the jumpers affected how the hdd's boot, but thanks for your answer. its all clear now

Or you can change the boot order in your BIOS. It's much easier than cracking open your case to change cables and jumpers.

[danbo]

the master/slave jumpers have to do with the way the IDE bus sees the hdd's.. not how they boot... the first hdd on your ide bus is the primary master, the second is the primary slave. the third ide device is the secondary master and the fourth is the secondary slave.

i never said the jumpers affected how the hdd's boot, but thanks for your answer. its all clear now

Or you can change the boot order in your BIOS. It's much easier than cracking open your case to change cables and jumpers.

i have to install the other hdd anyway, ordered it earlier today so i will just change the jumpers, thanks for reply

also can i update KDE 3.1.4 on slackware 9.1 to KDE 3.2? how can i do this?

[lordnothing]

i think you may need to manually update all of the programs that make up kde.. unless slack has an auto-update program that can update them all for you...

[danbo]

i think you may need to manually update all of the programs that make up kde.. unless slack has an auto-update program that can update them all for you...

would SYNAPTIC do that?

[lordnothing]

dunno.. i haven't used slack.. i found gentoo and haven't looked at other distros since...

[sarumont]

i think you may need to manually update all of the programs that make up kde.. unless slack has an auto-update program that can update them all for you...

would SYNAPTIC do that?

It should. From what I hear, it's a decent package manager. :P

[danbo]

when i used redhat 8 i used apt-get to update my system, this ended up causing various problems with my hardware devices (mainly my USB cable modem and my sound card). I hope synaptic doesn't cause these upon performing a system update