How do I Install on separate hdd

[Paul Schulz]

Hi David,

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:08 AM, David Ryder <davaweb at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>  System: 2 sata, 3 ide drives
>
>  Feisty is on my default boot drive. I choose other OS' by F12.
>
>  How can I install another release on an empty drive without changing any
> other grubs or MBR? I don't want the new install to know anything about the
> other OS' - so no reference to them in its grub either?

(snip)

At your initial grub screen, if you are willing to type in all the
parameters to boot from the separate drive then there is nothing
stopping you.. and none of the install GRUB's will be any wiser.

.. on a related note, the root file system entry ('/') in '/etc/fstab'
is purely for convenience.The kernel is told what this is on the boot
command line.

For other ext2/3 partitions, you can give them labels with 'e2label'
which can then be mounted using '/dev/disk/by-label/<label>'.

So.. install onto the new drive. You should easily be able to boot
into it... you could also create a GRUB boot floppy (or use syslinux)
to boot into new os.

>  If I have to unplug the drives, how can I get the entries in fstab etc to
> be right?

(see above)

>  Many thanks,
>  David

Cheers,
Paul

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