For what it's worth, make sure to use a recent enough distro. Lilo was updated to support EDD (that's the right acro isn't it?) and do booting to cylindars greater than 1024. I seem to recall that of my stack of RH cds, not all of them had a new enough lilo. Josh Jore ___SIG___ On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Doug Hanson wrote: > 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 > > 612-625-2115 > > 612-625-2163 fax > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >