I've done RH9 and Winders98, but on the same disk partitioned. Only problem I run into is Winders freezes up after I've been in RH9 before it. Haven't had time to troubleshoot that, otherwise the setup's grand.
> ---------- > From: Chris Bullock[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:02 AM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98 > > Never done it with RH9 or multiple HDs but I am currently dual booting > Mandrake 9.0 and Win98. I am sure it is simple to do, just when you are > creating you partitions create a windows partition with a fat > filesystem. and be sure that your boot loader sees the windows share > while installing. > --chris > > Ian Meyer wrote: > > > Hello everyone. Here's what I've got. My mom has a very tempermental > > PC running Windoze98, and I happen to have a spare Hard Drive laying > > around. The HD is out of my iMac, but its a standard ATA66 IDE hard > > drive, but with two HFS+ partitions on it. Can I format it with the > > RH9 installer and then install RH9 on it? > > > > What I want to do past that is leave in her existing HD and use it for > > just Windows (because she'll still be booting into it from time to > > time for some apps that she needs) and have the RH on the other drive > > and dual boot. I was thinking that it would be easiest to make the > > "new" hard drive the master and put the boot loader and stuff on it, > > and make the windows drive the slave, would that work? > > > > Is there anything else I need to know before I start doing this? > > > > TIA > > Ian Meyer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- New! WOOHOO! > > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
