[H-GEN] Redhat 6.2 & Win98SE

[Frank Brand]

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David Duffy wrote:

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> Hi All,
> I have a PC with Win98SE on it currently and would like to
> install Redhat 6.2 from the APC mag CD. The HDD is a 10G
> with about 7G as the primary partition & 3G as the extended.
> Can I install RH6.2 on the 3G partition?

Well you won't be able to boot Linux off the 3 Gb partition as it is outside
the 1024 cyl limit.

However you could install a small boot partition inside the 8.4 Gb area and
then run all the Linux stuff from another partition. That is usually how it is
done

>  I did try to but could
> not get past the partition screen during the install process.
> I deleted the dos partition & tried to make new Linux ones but
> could not figure it all out! I guess it just hasn't all sunk in yet
> about LILO & where it has to go. :-(  Is the problem that the
> 3G partition is above the allowed addressing point? As you
> may have guessed, I'm not up to speed on Linux yet!!
> Any help would be appreciated...

Yes that is probably the major problem. I normally install LILO on the mbr of
the booting hard drive...normally the C: drive. For a Win dual boot you will
need to install Windows first then Linux and the LILO files should pick up the
FAT32 partition so you can dual boot easily.

I always prefer to use the Linux FDISK manually but the newer disributions
make it more difficult to do this.

I find Linux fdisk much easier to use than the DOS fdisk as it has loads more
functionality and, once you get into it just hit "m" and it gives you all the
information you need.

Frank Brand


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