[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Roy Vestal]

Ian,
 It will work fine. I've done that with my gaming box at home, Win98SE and
RHL 9. I would recommend you blank the HDD before loading if you can.
www.jetico.com has BCWipe, a nice wipe program. If not, it should be ok.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Meyer" <ianmeyer at mac.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98


> im thinking that ill just wait for the next ncsulug installfest and get
> her to tote the computer up to state and just do it there where i can
> get some hands on help[ before i kill her computer on accident
>
> thanks
> ian
>
>
> On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 9:14, Frye, Matthew wrote:
>
> > I've done RH9 and Winders98, but on the same disk partitioned.  Only
> > problem
> > I run into is Winders freezes up after I've been in RH9 before it.
> > Haven't
> > had time to troubleshoot that, otherwise the setup's grand.
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From: Chris Bullock[SMTP:cgbullock at cox.net]
> >> Reply To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:02 AM
> >> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> >> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98
> >>
> >> Never done it with RH9 or multiple HDs but I am currently dual booting
> >> Mandrake 9.0 and Win98.  I am sure it is simple to do, just when you
> >> are
> >> creating you partitions create a windows partition with a fat
> >> filesystem.  and be sure that your boot loader sees the windows share
> >> while installing.
> >> --chris
> >>
> >> Ian Meyer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello everyone. Here's what I've got. My mom has a very tempermental
> >>> PC running Windoze98, and I happen to have a spare Hard Drive laying
> >>> around. The HD is out of my iMac, but its a standard ATA66 IDE hard
> >>> drive, but with two HFS+ partitions on it. Can I format it with the
> >>> RH9 installer and then install RH9 on it?
> >>>
> >>> What I want to do past that is leave in her existing HD and use it
> >>> for
> >>> just Windows (because she'll still be booting into it from time to
> >>> time for some apps that she needs) and have the RH on the other drive
> >>> and dual boot. I was thinking that it would be easiest to make the
> >>> "new" hard drive the master and put the boot loader and stuff on it,
> >>> and make the windows drive the slave, would that work?
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything else I need to know before I start doing this?
> >>>
> >>> TIA
> >>> Ian Meyer
> >>> ianmeyer at mac.com
> >>> ijmeyer at unity.ncsu.edu <-- New! WOOHOO!
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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