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Yet Another Config of Dual Boot Install

Asked by Marili in Linux Setup

Tags: boot, config

Hi there and thanks from the start for your wonderful help.  Apologize for the redundancy of this question,tons of reading and still unsure...

GOAL:  Dual boot Suse Linux 9.2 and Windows2000 on a two internal harddrives system (one Samsung older IDE 120GB, one Seagate brand new SATA 160GB, motherboard SATA compatible).    

CURRENT:  The system is running Suse Linux now on the IDE harddisk. I have 2000 on a CD; have Partition Magic and 2000 boot disk on floppies.  The system WILL NOT read the CD (goes into Linux choices) or floppies (says there's an error.  tried a bunch of different floppies.  They work in my M$ PC) I have Knoppix on CD if needed for any reason. Have Suse on CDs and DVD.  CPU is Athlon64 3400, 1GB memory.  SATA HDD just installed, not used yet. YAST hardware list does show it, but shows as a scsi, which seems incorrect.  It's plugged into a SATA plug on the sata compatible motherboard.  (two total internal harddrives, no externals, more than enough power)

Partitioning reads:
/dev hda  111.8 GB
/dev hda1   1.0 GB  swap
/dev hda2  110.7 GB
/dev sda   149.0 GB

Where the heck is the other 8GB for hda and 11GB for sda?

THOUGHTS/?'s:  Wanted to install Windows on the 2nd drive, but how? can't read the disk or floppies.  It does read the SATA CD which has all sorts of stuff on it, including partitioning.  Could it partition #2 without screwing up Linux? If it's on separate HDD, does it still wipe the MBR? Are floppies OS dependent, hence reason they don't work?  

PLAN:  Wipe the system clean and start over.  Fine with me.  HOW would I do that?  From terminal or YAST?  Hoping Partition Magic is gonna work after Linux is gone. If not, try 2000 to set up 4 partitions on each HDD, with 2GB swap on each (double the memory).  Make it all NTFS for security. Cross access is not essential. Linux on the SATA and W$ on the IDE.

Lotta questions.  How does this sound? Better plan?  How to DO IT???  thanks a thousand million times  :)
 
 
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