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Installing Fedora on a Secondary Hard Drive
So I've decided that Fedora KDE is the distro for me. Last night, I installed an old hard drive (20GB) to put it on. I have been reading fedora wiki and im having some issues. For example, i dont see it supporting SATA HDD's. Also, how do I get it to install only on my second hard drive. "hdb" as i can understand it. PLease note that I am very un savvy about Linux and when they say to type in some random string of code, all i can relate to is my programming experience and command prompt. Help?
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yes, fedora core comes with grub and will install it for you on the mbr of the master drive. for SATA drives you're going to need additional configuration of the installer. I've never done that before so I can't advise. Try googling it. Once you get past that, it's a graphical installer which should make installing to the right hd easy.
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mbr? My main drive is SATA, the drive i want to install on, the slave, is IDE
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mbr = master boot record. if the slave is ide, I think you should be fine with the installer. the master boot record is a partition the computer looks at to see what operating system to boot. grub is a bootloader that installs itself in the master boot record and helps you pick which os to boot into.
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