Oh btw sorry for cross posting. It a pretty interesting concept though. I thought cross posting is something like we should not have To address to vox-tex as well CC to vox. So I thought if I send it separately it would do just fine. Anyway now I understand that both are same.
Btw my Linux installation went great. It was not as tough I thought it would be. Simple trick here is just to understand few things like 1. windows uses VFAT and Linux uses EXT2 filesystem 2. C drive is your hda1, D drive hda5 and E drive hda6 I believe Redhat 8.0 is simply outstanding just follow the instructions carefully and it will do everything for you. Just reading few doc from google will do before hand to get a good feeling :). Oh btw I did this before even getting replies from any of you guys so its kind of nice feeling. I do think that we don't want to scare people away by speaking LILO or Grub I think our Redhat CD will take care of virtually everything just make some wise decision when choosing options. Btw I made lots of improvements too. I used mount command to access my windows file. Yesterday only I Installed Wine to access Windows program not that successful. I installed it. It took some half an hour to compile that program. Finally when I did whereis wine I got nothing. Anybody here successful with Wine? Few more thing though Redhat 8.0 was not able to detect my right hardware. It still went ok. I did installation 3 times. One with Home User option, Second with Workstation, Third with Server option. Third time I selected myself the right hardware. Not a bad idea to note down your right hardware before hand. There are few more things left out from my side. I need to make redhat work with my Printer, Webcam and ofcourse Modem(Dishnet DSL). Strange Dishnet people told me that my USB Modem can never work with Linux , that's one of the reason I had windows installed in my System. I have seen real performance improvement with Linux compared to Windows so its kind of Nice. I would really say that Redhat 8.0 Installation is by far the easiest. Thanks everybody. Karthikeyan B ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & E Radel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: [vox-tech] re:Help a Newbie to run Linux on my Win98 System > > > From: "karthikeyan.balasubramanian" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:54:14 +0530 > > Subject: [vox-tech] Help a Newbie to run Linux on my Win98 System > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi, > > > > I got 3 Redhat Linux CDs from a friend of mine and planning to install it > > on my Windows 98 System. > > Just wondering what are all the precautions I need to take. I just want to > > make myself prepared before > > going about this job. Not sure what will happen lol. > > > > My System Configuration > > > > P4 1.4 Ghz > > Mercury Motherboard > > 40 GB Hard disk (IDE) > > 256MB RAM > > Logitech Mouse > > HP Deskjet Printer > > Logitech Cam > > > > I have 3 partitions. > > > > C: All my windows program resides here 13 GB > > D: All my files, back files etc 14 GB > > E: I kept this blank thinking that some day I shall install Linux here :). > > 13 GB > > > > I want to install Redhat Linux on partition E: > > > > PS : I searched through google and found something interesting for doing > > this job. > > 1. I need to run windows defragmention utility first. > > 2. I need to use Lilo or Grub (I never knew what this is) > > > > Thing is I want something very simple so that I can get started quickly. > > I want dual boot feature. > > > > Help me please > > > > Have a great day. > > > > Karthikeyan B > > Hi Karthikeyan > > Here is what I do: > 1). I create the partitions I need. (eg: split the third partition 12.5gig for > Linux, and 0.5gig for Linux swap). > 2). Install Windows (you already have done this). > 3). Install Linux (with lilo in MBR). Now, by default Linux will boot instead of > Windows. But Windows is still there. > 4). Install eXtended Operating System Loader (from www.xosl.org) on the Windows > partition. You will need > a Win9x/dos boot disk to install XOSL on the fat32 partition. It's a GREAT > GUI bootloader. > 5). When setting up the OS's in XOSL, select "Old MBR" instead of the Linux > partition. > 6). Modify the GUI of XOSL so that your prefered OS will boot as default, and > hot keys for the other, etc. > > This is a very simple method of dual booting, without having to learn about grub > and lilo. Others will have different > suggestions. > > However, if you have access to SuSE 8.1, it can set all this up dual boot for > you. No extra software > needed. It's very clever. This is a better option. :-) > > Regards, > Dietrich > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
