George,
I was in a similar situation last week. What I did was install Windows
ME in a 6 GB 'C' partition. I then installed RH 7 into an adjacent
region with separate partitions for /boot, /, /usr/local, and
/usr/people. This put the /boot partition completely below the 1024
cylinder mark. LILO was in the MBR. When this was stable, I added a
final partition for the windows 'D ' drive. Worked fine, but a word to
the wise: my WinME did NOT LIKE working with partitions created by disk
druid. It would not boot. When I created the Linux partitions with
Partition Magic it worked fine. I did not try fdisk, but likely it
would work as well.
Good Luck,
Nic
George Lenzer wrote:
>
> Hello all...
>
> This coming weekend I am going to help assimilat... err..
> help some friends set up a dual boot system. They are
> using a large HD (About 45 Gigs). They want to use 20
> for Windows 98, 20 for a fat32 data drive, and 14 for
> RedHat Linux 6.2.
>
> I've done dual boot installs before and haven't had any
> trouble, but the last time I tried to do this on their
> machine, RH 6.2 complained about installing beyond 1024
> clusters. Unfortuantely, I don't think there is any
> other way I can do this.
>
> I usually install in the following order:
>
> 1. Windows 98
> 2. RedHat with LILO in the mbr because it works
> easily.
>
> This has always worked for me before, but I dont usually
> allocate a lot of space to Windows.
>
> Is there a way I can install RH 6.2 first, maybe with /boot
> residing below 1024 clusters, then / gets mounted near the
> end of the drive? Then I can install Windows 98 between
> /boot and /?
>
> Anyone else ever run into this problem? Is it BIOS related?
> This is an older machine. I think 1996 was the vintage. I
> looked at the LILO-Multiboot HOWTO, but that didn't seem to
> address this issue.
>
> In my mind, it's not a question of "can it be done", it's more
> a question of "how do I do it"?
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
> PS-To all who answered my previous posts on various issues,
> A BIG T H A N K Y O U!!!! This list is the best source
> I've found for Linux info.
>
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