Hi,
Although I use Linux for my work
and quite a lot at home, I would like
to have the best of both worlds.
I have a nice shiny new 20G disk drive
and want to repartition it so that I can
install RH Linux 6.1 and Windows '98 on
it.
I have been going back and forth from
the two fdisks and making a complete dogs
breakfast of my disk.
Can anyone offer any hints, general
principles or straight-out instructions
to help me get through this?
Thanks very much!
Here are some details which may give you
some idea of how I have botched the job so
completely...
- Bill's format command on my tiny 2G primary partition
is formatting all 19G of my disk, so it is evidently
ignoring the partition table, I guess because the old
Windows '98 FAT tables are still present. How can I
stop it doing this?
- Can I get Bill's fdisk to work around my Linux
partitions without stomping on them?
- Can I make a floppy which boots to a single user shell
without a Linux installation already on the disk? I
hate having to go through RedHat's installation screens
to run little things like fdisk.
- How do you format a hard disk in Linux? (other than
having RedHat do it for you)
- I have managed to do this before on another disk,
but only by re-installing Linux 3 times as it was
stomped on by Windows at various points
- It would be nice to have only one huge C: drive
at the end of the whole process, but Lilo (at least
with RH6.1) doesn't seem to be able to cope with
Linux starting so high up, so having a C: and a D:
drive may be inevitable
- It would be nice to have both the C: and the D:
drive initialized before Win98 is installed, to
avoid the CDROM moving from D: to E: and confusing
Windows immensely later
- During Windows '98 installation, if checkdisk detects
a non-dos partition, it suggests that you leave it alone
to prevent you from stomping on some other OS. However,
it still regards this as an error, and quits from the
installation process
Thanks for any help you can offer. If I should RTFM,
please, which one?
Peter Fletcher
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