[CentOS] installing on second drive

[Steve Clark]

Hi,

My concern is that the installer will see the F14 / and /boot partitions on the first
drive and try to install there as opposed to the newly created / and /boot partitions
on the second drive.



On 10/15/2013 09:03 AM, Marios Zindilis wrote:
> CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 14 are both using GRUB Legacy, so it should be OK to
> install CentOS along with F14. The installer should detect both operating
> systems and add entries in GRUB menu for them.
>
> If the disk with Fedora is removed during the installation of CentOS, the
> system won't dual-boot... at least not without some GRUB tweaking.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Tom Grace
> <lists-in at deathbycomputers.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 15/10/13 13:46, Steve Clark wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I have two drives - the first drive currently has F14 on it. The second
>> drive is empty.
>>> If I select custom partition and only partititon and format the second
>> drive, will
>>> CentOS install on the second and not touch the first drive?
>> The installer may replace/modify the bootloader configuration, so you'll
>> need to be careful of that.
>>
>> If you're unsure, I'd suggest making sure you have backups first and/or
>> disconncting the disk containing Fedora before you install CentOS.
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