i want to be able to dual boot windows me and Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the same hard drive it is a 3.15 gig hdd. how do i do this i am new to linux please help!!! Thanks Martyn.S

You are kidding about installing both Windows (oh) ME and Redhat Linux 9.0 with only 3 GB harddrive, right! RedHat Linux 9.0 would take all your space on your HH if you install everything from the 3 CDs and besides, I don't think BlueCurve (RedHat's window manager) would run with only 64 MB of RAM (and if it does, you wish it wouldn't because it's going to be slow like a snell...) Therefore, you may want to think about installing Windows on 1 GB and leave the rest for Linux. However, I wouldn't pick RedHat Linux 9.0 unless you have more space and RAM. Instead, you should check out Slackware 9.0 or even 9.1 and please don't install everything since you will run out of space soon. Only install what you need (no of the server and manual stuff) and use XFce as your window manager, not Gnome nor KDE. Or go get yourself another 6 or 10 GB drive and install Linux on that then, leaving Windows on the first drive... taurus

would you please solve my problem i left first 4GB of a 40GB mercury HDD to win98. then in the extended partition i created linux partitions andinstalled Redhat linux 9.0 at the time of installation i was told the linux / partition doesnt meet the boot constraints. i selected to write the lilo in mbr. i thought the problem will be over with that. but now only windows boots. and i am using linux boot floppy to go to linux OS. the system is p-iii in mercury mother board. why lilo is not starting? please say me.

Did you install lilo on MBR??? Also, check your /etc/lilo.conf to make sure you have everything right first. It should (not exactly like this) look something like this, boot = /dev/hda prompt #timeout = 30 #default=RedHat image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = RedHat initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.20 read-only vga = 773 other = /dev/hda1 label = Windows table = /dev/hda Save it and as root, run "lilo" to install it. You should see a return message saying something about Added RedHat* Added Windows reboot and pick whichever OS you want... taurus