On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Ho Chung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a PC with a single drive. I have Win98 installed on this drive, and
> I want to install RedHat Linux(5.1) on the same drive.
>
> I have enough disk space, and I also have Partition Magic to partition my
> drive. I want to safely install Linux so that I won't touch any software I
> had installed on my Win98.
>
> Is this doable? If it is, can someone send me an instruction on how to do
> this from start to the end?
>
> Please send me a reply with an instruction to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
It is doable, especially if you have a CD-ROM drive. What I
would do is use Partition Magic to create a second
partition on the hard drive (If it will create an EXT2
partition, so much the better, but if not, a "DOS"
partition will work... Linux can change the type to EXT2
when it installs.)
If you don't have a CDROM, you might just want to download
"rawrite" and the "boot" and "network" floppies for RedHat
5.1 (or just the "netboot" for RedHat 6.0, if you want to
use RH 6) and do an FTP-install (not sure if it'll dial
your modem or not...) Pretty self-explanatory once you get
into it. I'd suggest you use disk-druid for partitioning
and formatting your hard drive partitions (basically select
the empty partition you made with PM and also create a
50-75 meg "swap" partition as well out of that.)
I'm no genius and have little experience with installing
Linux but was able to do it pretty much on my own the first
time.
