linux installation problem

[calvin]

My system is of compaq make, p4, 1.5 ghz, 128mb, 20GB.
In that 20GB, D drive(10GB) contains winXP backup( i was not given XP cd, only recovery cd was given), in the C drive(10GB) i have active winXP.
Recently i added 40GB samung drive as a slave to the original master(XP).
when i tried to install redhat linux in a 10GB partition in the new drive(slave) it reported a failure notice "partition creation failed to make primary partition".
I dont want to touch or fiddle with my original drive.
1.)Is there any way possible for me to install redhat linux on a slave drive?
If so how? Or else is there any other linux which can be installed so?
2.)If i disconnect my old drive n connect new one as master, install linux on it and then set both drives to previous state (old master n new slave) then make changes in LILO(installed in newdrive instead of MBR) and make NTLoader to point to LILO then will it work?
4.)If i use Linux to connect to internet then is thre any way a virus can infect my WinXP data and files in other partition?

 

[harmax]

ur k k k k k ali kalidas right!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gauravnawani]

ur k k k k k ali kalidas right!!!!!!!!!!

What are you getting at harmax??

Step 2) that you mention looks a better choice for you. BTW each drive has its own MBR.

It showed faluire for creating faliure? Can you elaborate it more. Probably you are using an older Linux version. I had a problem once with Fedora2 during the installation but it also asked me to ignore and it worked fine afterwards. Probably you need to format and partition the disk with some other utility.

Once you have installed Linux on otherdrice you can also switch it from BIOS. Once then make necessary changes in the GRUB (the Linux boot loader) which will allow you yo add winpartion in the boot options.

 

[calvin]

thanx for the reply guys i solved my problem.
actually i had partitioned my new samsung drive(using win2000 installation cd) into 10-30 partitions and within that 10gb partition wanted to install linux partitions thus i got error message.
thus i deleted the partitions so that i had full 40 GB for usage then i tried creating linux partitions on it and it worked!
now my linux is on slave drive but only the boot loader(GRUB) is on MBR, and it also recognises XP.