I need help with installing XP

[hempa]

Hello! i have two harddrives on my computer, one with linux and one that is empty.my problem is that when i boot with the xp install cd it cant find any of my harddrives. what can i do?? i really want to install xp

[Scarecrow Man]

It is my understanding that you 'should' install Windows before Linux.

It is good practice to install Windows XP first since it does not have the level of customization that Linux does(XP has the nasty habit of taking the first partition it finds).

these may help:

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html

[hempa]

It is my understanding that you 'should' install Windows before Linux.

It is good practice to install Windows XP first since it does not have the level of customization that Linux does(XP has the nasty habit of taking the first partition it finds).

these may help:

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html

My problem is that i dont allready have windows installed on any of the harddrives. and the installation cd cant find any of my harddrives. so i really need to know how to make my empty harddrive visible for the Xp installation cd

[rong]

Don't know anything about Linux, but would it work if you disabled the drive with Linux inside the case and then installed windows on the other hard drive, then connect the Linux hard drive back up.

[Scarecrow Man]

You can, as rong says unplug the Linux drive and install Windows as normal. You may need to re-install GRUB or LILO so you can boot into both.

[jason.b.c]

You can, as rong says unplug the Linux drive and install Windows as normal. You may need to re-install GRUB or LILO so you can boot into both.

Oh man ..! , Who use's LILO anymore...??

But seriously , Yea you would have to remove your linux hard drive and then install windows on the other...

Make sure you put the linux drive back in as MASTER and the Windows drive has to be SLAVE...!

It isn't nessasary to re-install Grub , Just add windows to the grub menu.list.....

# Generated by jiffyboot version 9.1. If this file is edited, the

# system will stop modifying it. To allow the system to resume

# management of this file, remove it and run /sbin/jiffyboot

#

default=0

timeout=10

color cyan/green magenta/green

splashimage=/boot/grub/bootsplash.xpm.gz

instructions Use the %c and %c keys to select which entry is highlighted.

timeout_message Entry %d will be booted automatically in %d seconds.

# hda2, boot entry

title Freespire Ver. 1.0.13

root (hd0,1)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-gratis root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 rootdev=0x0302 ramdisk=35392 Diagnostics video=vesafb:nomtrr jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hda2:0x44000 vga=0x311 splash=silent

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-gratis.gz

# hda2, diagnostic boot entry of /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2

title Diagnostics

root (hd0,1)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-gratis noresume2 single Diagnostics splash=0 root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 rootdev=0x0302 ramdisk=35392 Diagnostics video=vesafb:nomtrr jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hda2:0x44000

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-gratis.gz

# hda2, redetect boot entry of /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2

title Redetect

root (hd0,1)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-gratis noresume2 redetect splash=0 root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 rootdev=0x0302 ramdisk=35392 Diagnostics video=vesafb:nomtrr jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hda2:0x44000

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-gratis.gz

#hda3, boot entry

title XFCE Puppy

root (hd0,2)

kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro splash=silent

title Advanced Menu

configfile (hd0,1)/boot/grub/advanced-normal.lst

Is what a boot menu looks like...

[Scarecrow Man]

You can also use, GAG - http://gag.sourceforge.net/