"Arthur Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The easiest way that i have found [so far];
> create 2 DOS primary partitions, taking up the whole HD & only initilize /
> format the first one.
I found it better to mark the linux partition as "linux"
(or other non-dos types) so M$ leaves it alone, maybe
it won't touch ones marked as ntfs?
> Install WinX
> Windows doesn't seem to pick up a non initilized partition, so your CD drive
> is in the right place.
> Start the Linux install, re-partition the 2nd DOS partition to be linux
> primary & swap (& any others...)
> install linux.
> Done.
> Depending upon your version of LILO, you may need a different boot manager.
I recommend GAG (after hearing about it on slug I tried it on
my laptop and love it, my only wish is to change the "icons"
to better resolution images).
> > - 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.
> A diferent disto...
> I am assuming that RH6.1 is similar to 6.2...
> Just smack left CTRL + left ALT + F2 after RH has nicely booted...
> should give you a shell with a few basic commands.
tomsrtbt (don't have URL)
or if you've got linux somewhere already, do mkbootdisk
or the linux router floppy disk
or the linuxcare business card cdrom (which I love)
or any bootable linux cd should do
> > - How do you format a hard disk in Linux? (other than
> > having RedHat do it for you)
> dunno
mkfs (and fdformat for floppies)
(you don't really mean "format" the disk (you use fdisk to
layout the disk), you mean "make a filesystem")
> > - 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
(you can have one M$ partition (ie. "C drive") assuming
it can handle more than 2Gb or 4Gb or whatever)
you can do:
partition 1: linux /boot (say 100 Mb or so)
partition 2: dos/lose95/98/whatever
partition 3: linux /
partition 4: linux swap (100-200 Mb)
(or do partitions 3 and 4 the other way around)
> > - 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
> try
> [CD-DRIVE}\win98\setup.exe /?
> there is an option to skip this, just cant remember what it is..
last time I reinstalled lose95 for my chick, she had a 4Gb
FAT16 partition on one disk (I know it's not supposed to be
possible, I created it in linux for her and it works ok except
things like defrag/scandisk/etc crash with "divide by zero" errors)
and the lose95 installer wouldn't work cos it couldn't run
scandisk on that partition. Luckily that partition is on
a physically different disk so I just unplugged it (which
is probably safer anyway since I wasn't sure if it would
have got wiped by the installer).
Dave.
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