[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Ian Meyer]

alright, thanks a lot, i might do it tonite

thanks
ian


On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 15:38, Chris Bullock wrote:

> 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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