[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Ian Meyer]

what do i wipe through? will win98 do it? or the RH installer? how do i 
run the BCWipe?

thanks
ian


On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 10:55, Roy Vestal wrote:

> 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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