RE: Dual Boot Setp

"Chris Bice" <cbice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:45:35 -0600

Your 
bets bet is to throw away the 3gig, use only the 40, Install Windows 2k first 
using Fat 32, on however much of the drive you wish to use.  Then after the 
2K install, put in the RedHat 8 CD, preform the install and select "Manually 
Partition With Disk Druid".  Create at a minumum a 100MB 
/boot partition, a 512 swap partition and the rest to the mount point of 
/   Also be sure to use Grub as your boot 
loader.  Its Graphical and more helpful to navigate if anything 
goes wrong with the drive.  

You 
wont need a boot floppy, you can boot of the CD's.

  -----Original Message-----
From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com 
  [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Kris 
  Carter
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:42 AM
To: 
  psyche-list@redhat.com
Subject: Dual Boot Setp

  Hello,

  I have two seperate hard drives; the boot drive 
  is 3 GB and has Win2k SP3 installed.  I am new to Linux and have Red 
  Hat 8.0.  I have a second (slave) drive that is roughly 40GB in 
  size.  I have just installed a new Intel P3 Celeron board with 1.4 Ghz 
  Processor with 256 MB RAM

  First Id like to create a dual boot setup and am 
  not quite sure how to set that up with Linux.
  Second.. I am creating a RAWRITE boot disk... and 
  if this were Windows I could boot with my disk, and install Windows from the 
  I386 folder into whatever drive I wanted. Is it that simple with 
  Linux?

  - Kris