Hi,
It's really easy. Boot W*****s 95, insert a blank floppy in the drive and
the RedHat CD in the drive. Then change to the "images" directory in the CD
and generate a boot disk on the floppy. Coldstart the PC booting from the
floppy, proceed normally with installation. When asked, tell the installer
to place the boot (LILO) in the hda1 partition. That's all...
When I first installed Linux I was a bit temerary and didn't made backups
of W*****s, there were any problems, fortunatelly.
Good luck,
Francisco
At 10:15 AM 23/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I will, in 2 days, be attempting to help a friend install linux (RedHat
>5.1) onto her machine... She has, and needs to keep, Win95. She's going
>to create a 1 gig partition for Linux...both swap and the linux native.
>Now, I have never partitioned a HD that already has an OS on it. Since my
>linux box is JUST a linux box, I never had to worry about messing anything
>up. We will be backing up her HD, but nonetheless... I don't want to
>mess it up and I have heard that Windoze doesn't like it when you do
>things like partition your HD...so, how do I get around this evil demon
>created my M$?
>
>What are the steps I should take to partition the drive? I would assume
>that we will have to use Linux fdisk... What's the best way to do that?
>Create a boot disk for linux and a root disk and put fdisk on that? I
>have also never used RedHat, so I have NO idea what is on there... I'm
>using an older version of Slackware...
>
>ANY help at all would be appreciated... Thanks!
>
>-Evan-
>
>
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