Based on my own recent experiences-
>
> wine so I can run Ignite and some others. Anyone know how
> frontpage and
> dreamweaver work in wine?
I think WINE is only for 16-bit apps.
>
>
>
> How should I partition everything? How much should go into
> var, usr, home,
> all that?
>
I would just have one partition for Linux, one for Linux swap and one
for windoze (see below). You have plenty of space for all of these (I
guess). If you don't use LILO to boot, I don't think it matters where
the Linux partition starts, but don't quote me on this....;-)
> Is there anything I should watch out for while installing?
>
> How can I get windows and linux to interact? In other words,
> can I share
> files between the two?
>
Yes. As long as your kernel version is 2.0.34 or later then you will
have FAT32 support. My kernel is currently "32" so I only have FAT16
but I can mount drives as "vfat" so I have long file names. I guess a
good half way house (for the paranoid) would be to have a shared data
partition which both Linux and windoze can look at. If this is not huge
then FAT16 would be OK.
> What's a good book(s) for learning Linux and Xwindows?
I have two books. The first one I bought was "Teach yourself Linux in
24-hours" published by Sams. It's pretty user friendly for the novice.
After I had installed I got "Running Linux" by Welsh and Kauffman
published by O'Reilly which is an excellent all round reference. You
should buy this one!
>
> I don't think I want LILO in my MBR. I understand there are
> other ways to
> multi-boot? One way I heard about is boot to dos, then use a
> dos menu that
> will execute a command that restarts to the other partition?
> Are there any
> other ways that are quicker,
You can boot to doss and use "loadlin.exe" in a batch file - eg
"<path>loadlin.exe <path>vmlinuz root=/dev/hd<whatever>". Or else
create a boot floppy, which is the method I use. After you install
RedHat, locate the file "vmlinuz" in /boot. Use the command:
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
and this will write the compressed kernel image to the floppy. READ THE
HOWTO ON THIS first. In fact this goes for everything.
>
> A few months ago I did have 5.1 installed(for a day, don't
> ask). I recall
> my sound card not working with XWindows. How do I get
> Xwindows(linux) to
> recognize a sound blaster awe-64?
>
> Well, I suppose I should leave it at that for now. Thanks in
> advance for
> the help!
>
>
> ..jeremy.
>
No problem.
enjoy,
Martin
