[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Chris Bullock]

The RH installer, should ask which partitions you want to format, just 
don't pick the windows partition and you will be fine.  When it ask you 
to do the partitioning your installer should see 2 disks, leave the 
Windows disk as it is and creat you linux partitions on the iMac/new 
disk.  Sorry, no input on the BCWipe, but I have done several dualboot 
win98 and linux installs and never had a problem.
--cgb


Ian Meyer wrote:

> 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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