According to Zainal Abidin ACN: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie on this great OS.
> I have two questions now.
> Anybody can help, please.
>
> 1st question;
> I have two HDs;
> -6GB on which I have Win98 installed and
> -1.2GB with a map like this: -200MB, FAT16 DOS partition
> -the rest, Linux Swap&root partitions
> already both installed & running.
>
> I usually work like this;
> -If I want to work with Win98 I connect the 1st HD as master,
> dosn't matter with the 2nd HD.
> -But if I want to work with Linux I have to switch the HDs first.
You dont need to switch anything if the system is configured properly with
the correct tools.
>
> Can I [re]install my new RedHat Linux 5.1 onto my second HD attached
> as primary slave without disturbing my Win98,
> in order to avoid that so much hassle job?
> In other word, can I install Linux onto second HD second partition?
Yes you can, but why reinstall.
Use your bootdisk's which you made to install linux with to boot linux on
the primary slave, looking at the message below it seems your linux
partition is on the 3rd partition of the drive, now it would be /dev/hdb3
when the drive is connected as primary slave, you could use something like
the following at the LILO prompt on the bootdisk.
mount root=/dev/hdb3
There are other ways but i dont have time at the minute to explain anymore.
>
> Any guidence on the install process is higly appreciated.
>
> 2nd question;
> What does this message mean:
> /dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmount, check forced
It means that partition was NOT unmounted before you turned of the computer.
>
> While this message is displayed the booting process seems to be
> stopping. But after a quite a long time I was suprised it continue
> the booting.
The bigger the partition the longer "fsck" will take.
If you dont get more help from others, drop me a line, sorry but i have no
more time now.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Zain
>
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Regards Richard.
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