At 08:55 PM 1/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
>and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported,
>bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals
>except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound
>card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up.
>Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I
>set it up after the OS has been installed?
As root, type "sndconfig" from a command prompt.
>I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's
>are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot
>off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I
>boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works
>fine.
There is a HOWTO file that explains how to do this (excuse the redundancy
:) look for it, somewhere in the CDs...
AFAIK, you'll need to setup a small (<1Mb?) partition and make it your
linux boot partition (/boot). You need to do this from the main HD -- that
is, the one you boot from.
The Mandrake installation will ask you where you want your boot partition,
where you want your /root to be, where you want LILO to reside, etc. Make
sure you do not put LILO on the the MBR...put it in the /boot partition.
But, if you can fork out $40, get Partition magic -- which includes
Bootmagic and it can serve as your boot manager. It makes things very easy
to configure and manage.
-Carl
