Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

[Larry Cook]

Hi Fred,

> Now, having installed a 2nd HD as the IDE slave, I want to install Windows 
> 2000 or Windows XP on it.

It's been a while since I've done this, but I would take out your Linux drive 
and install your new drive.  Now Windows should install.

I would then put your Linux drive in as the 2nd drive and put GRUB on the new 
drive.  Have GRUB do the drive switching magic and Linux should boot and run 
without any changes.

My experience doing this was about three years ago.  I was never able to get 
Win2K to boot off the second drive, it had to be on the first drive. 
Additionally, reinstalling Windows wouldn't leave GRUB alone and installed the 
Windows bootloader.  So now I just boot to Linux from floppy or CD.

Larry