Installing Linux on a Windows Machine

[AntiFox]

I decided against the partitionless install, and need help with installing Red Hat 6.2 to the end of my 30 gig drive. I saved 20 gigs of the drive for windows, so linux will be installed after the 1024 mark. I have 10 gigs of space at the end of my drive for linux, so how do I install it to this space, and allow it to boot? I need a swap partition of 128+ megs, and should I just make a root partition that takes the rest of the space? Whats the best way to go about partitioning my hard disk, with Disk Druid, or Partition Magic 5. If I use partition magic, what do I do when I run the install if the partitions are already set? do I just select the partitions I made with partition magic and install?

I know there are alot of questions here, but I really want to install linux on my machine, as I had it built to work extremelywell with linux, and if you guys can help I will be greatly thankful.

[WeDeliver]

Partition magic will display your intact FAT/NTFS drives and then allow you to place a ext2 or whatever it will be to the end, no problem. During the Red Hat setup, you will be prompted to create your swap space, boot partition, etc. Also during installation it will ask for your boot loadeder, choose LILO. LILO loads on the boot partition of the HDD and will still allow you to boot to Windows.

[AntiFox]

I think I am gonna do it the easy way, and just setup a swap and a root partition. Would that work too?

[WeDeliver]

Sure enough will, at least in my limited experience. Don't forget the boot partition

[This message has been edited by WeDeliver (edited 08 January 2001).]

[mdwatts]

You don't need a separate boot partition actually, only swap and /.

Unless you have the older version of lilo, then you will need to create a 30MB or so boot partition below the 1024 cylinder point.

The newer lilo and grub support booting past the 1024 limit.

[ethereal]

To keep it simple, I'd advise not using Redhat. I've used 6.2 and am using 7.0 right now.

Of all the distro's I've used, (redhat, mandrake, debian, and slackware) all but redhat were able to boot from anyware on the hard drive. If you want to use Redhat, you'll have to make 2 partitions. The first one at the very begging of the hard drive, the second can be your 10 gig partition.

When installing with Redhat, mount the first small partition as /boot. This should keep things going smoothly. With any other one I've mentioned this isn't necessary.(You'll of course have to mount the 10 gig as /.)

-Ethereal

[ToolPackinMama]

Originally posted by WeDeliver:
Partition magic will display your intact FAT/NTFS drives and then allow you to place a ext2 or whatever it will be to the end, no problem.

I use Partition Commander and I love it. It's a commercial application that is just terrific for all partitioning tasks.



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Laura Goodwin
lalaura@altavista.net

[i need some help]

system commander 2000 .............you cant
loos with it.....i use it and it never crashed...........and you can resize at any time and not loos a file.....best way to go


hope this helps.......

[lynch]

If you choose to install Mandrake,you'll be asked at the end of installation where do you want to install the bootloader(default loader is Grub).Select the MBR option.You can then boot Linux or windows.
lynch