The **general** answers to your questions are:
>(a) Should I do it? Does it make a difference? Why/why not?
Yes. RH 5.2 is old enough that it should not be run on hosts that are
directly, continuously connected to the Internet. Too many security holes.
>(b) How should I do it, if I must?
That depends on how much custom material you have on your Linux host. If
very little, best to do a fresh install (after saving your personal stuff to
the WIndows partition, floppies, or another host on the LAN).
>(c) Can I set LILO to boot up directly with the partiotioning I have on
>my machine?
Maybe yes, maybe no. LILO needs to have a boot partition that is within the
first 1024 cylinders of the drive (as the BIOS sees it). This stuff has been
changing, and I don't knwo your equipment, but it is likely that the latter
part of the drive is outside that limit. So you can't boot a kernel that is
on it.
But these are only general answers. Your situation has to be evaluated in
light of the history of problems you have had, and your summary of them here
is too sketchy to be a guide. Were I in your sutiation, I probably would get
a second hard disk, install that as the IDE primary master, and install
Linux on it. I believe newer LILOs can boot Windows from the secondary
master ... assuming, of course, that your question was based on wanting to
keep a Windows partition. This solution costs about $100 (based on hard disk
prices around here); I can't decide for you if safety and convenience are
worth that price.
At 09:55 PM 2/11/00 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had a problem with installing Linux.. I had the RH5.2 CD first, so I
>partitioned my 12.5 G drive as 8.5-Windoze and 0.2 Linux swap, the
>remaining Linux and installed it. There was a problem with setting LILO
>up so I boot using loadlin through a boot-menu offered in Windows. Also I
>had to install the newer XFree86* servers. Now I did buy a 6.1 after that
>but had an anaconda exception in installation and got nowhere with that.
>
>Since I have configured the modem and pppd, I have stopped using Windows
>almost completley (i.e from the last 4 days and I have an uptime of 4
>days!!) So now I want to be able to upgrade to RH 6.1 if possible.
>(a) Should I do it? Does it make a difference? Why/why not?
>(b) How should I do it, if I must?
>(c) Can I set LILO to boot up directly with the partiotioning I have on
>my machine?
>
>
>Thanks,
>-Karthik.
>
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