Well, I scrapped the dual-boot idea. By the time I finished last night, I couldn't boot NT or Linux.
I was a little nervous, this is my work laptop. Anyway, when I got to work, I ran Partition Magic and fixed everything back the way it was. I had an older laptop that I could use the entire disk on, so I put RL on it and it went in just fine. Only problem was the PCMCIA devices aren't working and no sound. It's complaining about /dev/dsp not being there (it's there). And the CD AutoRun was spinning the CD-ROM drive non-stop and putting a load on the system. I killed it and my load avg. went back to normal. Other than those things, it's working pretty good. Runs a heck of a lot faster than NT ever did on that laptop. It's a Dell PII-266 with 128mbRAM. At 08:31 PM 10/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Well I leave a whole 13gig hard drive (removeable) for redmondlinux its >just a spare hard drive I keep around for testing Joe's stuff. > >But since you don't have that luxury what I would do is either >1) leave hda partitions 1 & 2 alone and delete the hda3 partition then > let redmond install to free space or > >2) partition hda3 as all but about 5% of the free space mounted on / > and the rest as hda4 (yup all primary) >I'm sure that setup will work fine. > >How big is this drive and how much ram do you have and how fast is the >processor? > >--- dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, right. Device is /dev/hda. C: is /dev/hda1 > > and D: is /dev/hda2, both are NTFS. > > > > I've have (had) this working with SuSE before. The > > process to get NT to allow a linux partition to boot > > is a snap, I just can't Redmond to install to the > > non-NTFS space. It's about 2.5GB, starting cylinder > > is around 865 or so. > > > > I created an extended on /dev/hda3, then created > > three logical.../boot, swap, and /. > > > > At 08:01 PM 10/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > >How are your partitions setup? > > > > > >I'm guessing but hda1 is the winnt partition? > > >how is the rest of the drive setup? > > > > > >--- dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I had one lockup, but the other times, I can get to the other > > > > windows and the messages seem to indicate that there is > > > > a problem with the installation trying to mount already > > > > mounted devices. > > > > > > > > I'll try and get more information. This is on a dual-boot > > > > laptop (other boot is WinNT) so I have to hand write information > > > > from the other windows. > > > > > > > > At 06:21 PM 10/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > > > >what kindof errors do you get? > > > > >does it plain lock up or can you ctl+alt+f<key> to any of the > > other > > > > >terminals. If you can you may get some idea of the problem > > there. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > >http://personals.yahoo.com > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
