Dear tclug folks, Hi! My name is Jason, and I just moved to Minneapolis from San Francisco last week! I'm "getting settled" and part of that is updating my computer system. I wanted to ask if any of you might have some advice or input on the best way of going about it, because it's a little complicated. I would like to install both Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Windoze 98, while also installing a new hard drive. Here's what I have NOW: 128 MB RAM One 3 gig hard drive (in first IDE slot) Red Hat Linux 6.0 (updated to 2.2.16 kernel) Windoze 98 using LILO to boot. Here's what I want to DO: 128 MB RAM One 3 gig hard drive (in second IDE slot) One 30 gig hard drive (in first IDE slot) Red Hat Linux 7.1, give the partition about 2/3 of my HD space Windoze 98, give the partition about 1/3 of my HD space Use LILO to boot The old 3 gig HD can stay almost the same, but I'd like to use it for storage only (don't want any operating systems (ie the kernel) on here...so I think I'll have to do something, but I'm not sure what.) What would be the best way of accomplishing this goal? Here's one proposal, but by all means shoot it down if it won't work or if there's a more efficient way. The big QUESTION I have is in step 5: 1. Remove the 3gigHD from the primary IDE slot, and put it in the secondary IDE slot. 2. Put the 30gigHD in the primary IDE slot. Note: I think the CD ROM is attached to the primary IDE slot via the HD, so I'll keep this configuration the same. 3. turn on the computer. 4. Go straight to BIOS, and make the hardware changes, and make booting from CDROM. Put in the RH Linux installation disk into the CDROM. Restart computer. The RHLinux installation program pops up on the monitor. I do a "Custom Installation". 5. I will make the appropriate partitions (128 MBswap, 16MB /boot, and variable size /root...and also partition for Windoze) on the 30gigHD. QUESTION: Should I leave the 3gigHD "as is?" I'm afraid of having two linux kernels, one on each HD. I can't just wipe out my 3gig HD because I need the data. What do I do here? I see two possible choices, but don't know how to execute either: 1) Have a kernel on each HD, but make the computer only use the new one which is on the 30gigHD. --or-- 2) Delete the old kernel (and any other "operating system" stuff, but nothing else) on the 3gig HD. Any thoughts on what to do? Once I have this accomplished, I think I should be home free. Please let me know the best way to go about this. And thank you very much! Sincerely, Jason Hataye