Use your win fdisk utility to lay out your driver 10M ,15M and leave the rest unformated, you have to load winbloze first then when you load RH it should ask you what partions you want and you can set the size then, the install and setup on RH should do the formatting. When you are asked where you want to install LILO, choose MBR. "Dileep D. Monie" wrote: > I'm partitioning my new Deskstar HDD (45 GB) to support a dual Win/Lin > boot. From recent comments, I take that I should install Windows first and > then Linux. > > Should I use the Win98 partitioning utility (or DOS Fdisk) to layout my > drive, install Win98 in the bootable partition (10 GB), and transfer my > existing files to the extended (logical) partition (15 GB); then come in > with RedHat's DiskDruid (or Linux Fdisk) to partition the remaining chunk > (20 GB) for Linux (/root, /home, /dev, etc.), install RedHat, and set the > MBR for a dual boot? What role if any does IBM's Disk Manager (for > installation) play in this? Can I alter my Linux partitions later easily > without 'shattering' Windows? (Whoa... that was a mouthful :o) > > Also, has the RedHat disc 1 iso been fixed on the TCLUG FTP server? > > - Dileep > > rants: Why does the occasional list digest have a light blue background? > Should I feel bad about using IBM products in light of the recent holocaust > allegations? > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list