Re: [TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

Steven Blanchard Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:23:13 -0700

I usually remove the windows disk as a just in case. Also, I generally put the linux disk first and the windows disk second. You have to map the drives in the bootloader so windows will actually boot. Both LILO and GRUB can handle it. That way the linux and windows drives are completely independent of each other.

the lilo way:
other = /dev/hdb1
  label = dos
  map-drive = 0x80
    to = 0x81
  map-drive = 0x81
    to = 0x80

the grub way:
grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
grub> map (hd1) (hd0)

good grub reference: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/Documentation/grub/

HTH
~Steven Blanchard

Ian Meyer wrote:

i jsut thought of something

to make sure i dont mess with the win disk at all, can i take it out and do the install to the other HD, then put the Win HD back in, and set the boot loader? or is it alright to leave both drives in and just let it set up the boot loader itself?

tia
ian

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 17:30, Roy Vestal wrote:

bcwipepd.exe runs from a DOS floppy (sorry bout that).

bcwipepd /? gives you the command line switches.
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what do i wipe through? will win98 do it? or the RH installer? how do i
run the BCWipe?

thanks
ian

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 10:55, Roy Vestal wrote:

Ian,
 It will work fine. I've done that with my gaming box at home, Win98SE
and
RHL 9. I would recommend you blank the HDD before loading if you can.
www.jetico.com has BCWipe, a nice wipe program. If not, it should be
ok.
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im thinking that ill just wait for the next ncsulug installfest and
get
her to tote the computer up to state and just do it there where i can
get some hands on help[ before i kill her computer on accident

thanks
ian

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 9:14, Frye, Matthew wrote:

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.

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From: Chris Bullock[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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