[CentOS] installing on second drive

[Steve Clark]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

We manually partitioned the second drive and the install went
without any problem, except that we had to say put the boot loader on
the second drive. This meant we had to change the boot order in
the bios to boot from the second drive first.

On 10/15/2013 12:26 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My concern is that the installer will see the F14 / and /boot partitions
>> on the first
>>
> The installer shouldn't mess with them.
> Unless you choose a guided disk layout that removes existing partitions or
> formats existing file systems ... you should be fine.  But you'll want to
> choose the option for manual partitioning.
>
>
>> drive and try to install there as opposed to the newly created / and /boot
>> partitions
>> on the second drive.
>>
> Just unhook the second drive.
> It's a simple, [hopefully] quick way of avoiding a catastrophe and you
> don't have to back up the partitions or MBR on that disk.
>
> Make sure your volume group names are unique [if using LVM] or that you use
> labels or UUIDs.
> When you hook that primary drive back up, the drive naming will change for
> the secondary 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.
>>>
>>>
>
>


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