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Name: Gerry
Date: October 14, 2001 at 13:43:30 Pacific
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Has anyone got a description of how to dual boot Linux and Win 98 on a single HD.



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Name: john
Date: October 15, 2001 at 03:28:51 Pacific
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You need fips.exe (a partitioning program), my copy came on the Linux CD. First you defrag your HD and make a second partition, then during the install you should get the option of making a boot disk or adjusting your Master boot record so you can choose at boot up. I SERIOUSLY recommend you to back up your hard drive as FIPS can be a little quirky AND do the boot disk as I messed up my MBR by trying to make a dual boot system. Good luck.

JOhn


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Name: Tony
Date: October 18, 2001 at 13:57:15 Pacific
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Go to the LINUX on the net and watch the demos.


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Name: joel king
Date: October 21, 2001 at 08:09:54 Pacific
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I did the following procedure and still couldn't get RHLinux 6.1 to boot:

1. Use FIPS to reduce my WinME from 18 GB down to 10 GB. Created a second partition worth 5 GB for Drive D:, leaving a 5 GB partition for RHL.

2. Use EFDISK I partitioned the remaining 5 GB to a swap partition and the rest for RHL root partition for a workstation-class installation.

3. I booted on the RHL CD-ROM, did the install fine up to the end.

4. Use MRBOOTER to define WinME and RHL boot, with RHL pointing to the root partition.

I can boot still WinME. However, I get a garbage message at the bottom of my screen when I choose RHL.

Did I miss something here?


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Response Number 4
Name: Joel King
Date: October 23, 2001 at 06:29:28 Pacific
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I finally decided to stay with using a RHL61 boot diskette, using a DOS batch menu to choose between WinME and RHL.



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Response Number 5
Name: Naveena
Date: December 11, 2001 at 02:00:27 Pacific
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Hay
Win 98 and Linux dual boot is not big deal when u install Linux 7.2.If Win 98 is already installed u can install Linux 7.2 easily.After u do fdisk in linux it will ask for default OS (Win 98 or Linux) loader.
U continue with linux installation and after everything finished reboot the system.U can see the options to boot, eithr linux or win 98(DOS).Thats all.No other configurations required


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Response Number 6
Name: samrat paul
Date: February 14, 2002 at 04:20:43 Pacific
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Hello i need to know few information about
how do i configure linux & winnt as a dual
boot enverment in a single Hard desk.


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