On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Zainal Abidin ACN wrote:
> 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.
It's getting late, so I'll just give you the simple solution. Connect
your linux hd as primary, the win9x as secondary. Boot linux. at the
end of /etc/lilo.conf add the lines:
other = /dev/hdb1
label = <your pet name for windows>
table = /dev/hdb
Make sure you have a delay = option in the global options in
lilo.conf. Run lilo. Reboot. When you see lilo, hit a shift key. It
will respond,
lilo boot
tell it either <your pet name for windows> or <what you called linux>,
as the spirit moves you, or if you press tab, it will remind you
what you called them.
This assumes your hd's are ide on the first ide channel. If they are
scsi, substitute sda and sdb for hda and hdb.
There are at least 131071 other ways to do this, but I can't think of
any that don't require you to upgrade to redhat 5.2 and install loadlin,
or patch a kernel, or ... Those are in future lessons in the school of
hard knocks. :-)
>
> 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?
>
> Any guidence on the install process is higly appreciated.
>
> 2nd question;
> What does this message mean:
> /dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmount, check forced
This means exactly what it says. You powered off the machine without
telling linux, so it is afraid you may have damaged something and you
will have to wait while it repairs it.
Before you power off the machine, login as root and do
shutdown -h now
This will allow the filesystem to complete any pending writes and
unmount itself cleanly. It doesn't take long, and will save you a lot
of time on your next boot.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Zain
>
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