Ed,
If you use Fdisk it will remove the partition and blow away windows (gee
bummer!!). To separate it cleanly, use a utility such as partition magic.
Then install Linux to the new partition. LILO will handle the dual boot of
the 2 OS's. If you want to do it cleanly, buy another hard drive. With
today's prices on drives, $100.00 will buy you 20-30GB worth of Linux
bliss.... Check the RedHat site for supported hardware!
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: <HOEFFNER at dcmir.med.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Cc: <HOEFFNER at dcmir.med.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:36 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] WIN98
> Hi
>
> I have a prof that would like me to install RH on his machine and I'm
hoping
> some of you guru types can point out the pitfalls before I fall into them
as
> I'd rather get this one right the first time and not have him breathing
down my
> neck while recovering from all the stupid mistakes I'm sure I'll make.
>
> The box is a Dell Dimension XPS P800R running Win98. It says family 6, so
I
> assume this means a 686 PIII. Nvidia GeForce 256 AGP and a P1110 monitor.
> there's only 1 disk on it (Maxtor 5 4098H8) with one partition on that --
36G.
>
> As I'm sure you can tell, I'm learning Windows slowly (as possible!) as
I've
> managed to avoid it for quite a while. All the machines that I've
installed
> onto so far have been NT with 2 separate disks on which I managed to keep
the 2
> OS's at the front of the 2 disks. The first problem I see is the
repartitioning
> of the disk. Fdisk I assume, but what will this do to the OS? Reinstall I
> suppose.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Ed Hoeffner
> 1-271 BSBE
> 312 Church St. SE
> Mpls, MN 55455
> hoeffner at dcmir.med.umn.edu
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