I'm running Win98 (gaming), Win2000 Professional (business), and Red Hat
7.1(pleasure). Here's what i did. It's more difficult when you have an NT
version of windows to boot with because NT has it's own LILO that resides in
the MBR. That's besides the point though.
1. make sure you defrag your drives to organize all of your data to the
front of your drive.
2. first, get your partitions set using the cool Disk Druid that is in the
installation process of Red Hat 7.1
3. don't touch anything that is Fat32 (your windows stuff). Red Hat's Disk
Druid will autodetect how you want your partitions set up. (leaving the
windows partitions alone)
4. then ya got the fun part of Disk Druid. Selecting the mount points. all
you need to do is enter a "/" as your mount point for your root directory.
the other partition is labeled "LINUX" and doesn't need a mount point. (It
mounts behind the swap)
5. do not install LILO on your MBR. You will have the choice given to you.
You just want LILO installed on the front of the Linux partitions.
6. now go through the installation process and pray to God that all of your
I/O devices are detected ;-) and get RED HAT 7.1 up and running. BE SURE TO
CREATE A BOOT DISK WITH A BLANK FLOPPY.
7. take your boot floppy out and reboot your machine.........chances are
that boot magic will autodetect everything but don't get upset if it
doesn't. (it's an easy fix)
now if it works ......you're all done........if not......here's what you do.
1. Enter in that boot disk for Linux you created and reboot your machine.
Enter the KDE (K Desktop Environment) and go into your Kontrol Panel. (kinda
like Control Panel in Windows) There is a "LILO" icon that will allow you
to edit LILO through a GUI to point to your partitions. Go to the second
TAB and click on Detect OS's. This should do pick out all three of your
OS's. Then save and close the LILO application. Now reboot the computer
without the boot disk and it should work fine. Here's how mine is set up.
hda = my first hard drive
hdb = my second hard drive
hda1 = front of first hard drive (probably windows ME for you)
hda2 = next partition on same drive. (probably Win98 for you)
hda3 = another partition created on your first hard drive (probably Linux if
you're running all three off of one hard drive
hdb1 = second hard drive
hdb2 = next partition on second hard drive.
hda1 - Windows 2000 Professional
hda2 - Red Hat Linux 7.1
hdb1 - Windows 98
hope this helps ya out michael........i'll be off and on the machine all day
today and actually doing a couple of Linux installs at work later in the
afternoon. Lemme know if this works out for you. I've been in your
predicament many a times and found it very fulfilling once you get all those
OS's up and running off the hard disk.
TED FLETCHER - MEMBER SINCE AUGUST 31, 2001
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of MK
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 10:05 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Install ?'s
Hello Everyone,
I've been doing quite a bit of reading about installing RedHat Linux 7.1 in
a multi boot environment and I'm just about ready to make the jump. I
already have a dual boot box using Win98SE and Me. My first question is,
since I'm using BootMagic already, can I create my 2 Linux partitions (both
logical drives within extended partitions that will be the / and swap
partitions) with PartitionMagic, then when diskdruid comes up during the
Linux install just set the mount points(is that the correct term)? Second,
will it allow me to specify where I install LILO during the install? I've
seen issues where people with setups similar to what I'm attempting can't
boot Linux unless they use a boot disk or they can't boot either of their
original OS's. I'm thinking that it may be because 1) They didn't install
LILO, thinking they already had a boot manager installed. 2) They installed
LILO and it overwrote BootMagic in the MBR and it doesn't have entries for
the Win OS's. Or 3) They haven't pointed an option in BootMagic to go to
where they have LILO installed. I'm under the impression that I'm to create
my partitions then go into BootMagic and set an option that points to the
first Linux partition (/) where I should install LILO to.... Does this sound
like I'm on the right track? Could I point it to a second physical drive if
I had one installed? I would really like to get this installed this weekend.
Anyone out there have their system set up like I'm attempting to do? Thank
you in advance for any and all help offered. By the way, this is all on a 25
Gig hard drive. My two existing partitions are 8 Gig's each with the rest as
unallocated space right now. I may be able to install a separate 6 Gig drive
in the box if it will make life easier.
Michael
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