Hello: I am eyeing the possibility of installing a Linus distro (Debian 4.0) on a Win2000 system with BootIT NG installed and controlling the loading and hard disk management of several other operating systems. However, by bringing in this grouchy Linux distro, it is dead set on being installed on the first hard disk in the first partition. Moving the current OS to another location on the second or third partition will surely wreck havoc when files are run from that location due to registry changes. These Internet downloads were grabbed from various urls and saved to the hard drive. These saved links are whole websites saved with a name and date for easy access. Would it be practical or even possible for this Linux distro to run from the other hard drives? Thanks in advance for your help Regards, purdew112

Can't imagine that. Every linux distro I have seen doesn't seem to care too much where it is placed. I'd be sure you understand how LILO or Grub works before I'd play with bootit. Might be easier to play with a virtual machine like Virtual PC or Sun's Virtualbox. I prefer qemu even though it is slower. It doesn't care how much real ram I have. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

Thanks jefro: Going through the Debian current installation manual, they've used the first partition exclusively as the boot drive. Moreover, in January, 2008, I ran across another distro, (PCLinux2007)and downloaded and burned the .iso file to cd and ran it as a Live CD. This program had many good looks and features that influenced my decision to install to the hard drive. The first thing I read was this os would install on the first hard drive, first partition only. This would require moving W2K to an alternate partition, which I refused to do. Finally, I’ve used BootIT NG since 2004 and have gained exceptional skills in the techniques and workings of this utility. I also have covered their knowledge base articles on the operations of Linux when using BootitNG. Your comments are very much appreciated, which has shed some light on the matter. Again, thanks much for your insightful comments. Best Regards, Purdew112

Sorry I wasn't more helpful. With your skills with bootit ng it should be easy to adjust to the few odd issues that linux offers. I tried bootin a very long time ago. Looks to be a much improved app. I guess it could be a bios issue even, maybe the cylinder is too high if the machine is a bit older or a odd hard drive. That being why the installer wanted the first partition. ??? "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10