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From: Jack Gillis on 27 Feb 2007 14:10 Years ago I installed boxed versions of Red Hat and Mandrake distros on their own dedicated machines. Now I want to install the downloaded trial version of Red Hat in a dual boot configuration with Windows XP. I have downloaded the 4 iso's from Red Hat and am ready to install in roughly 12g of unallocated space --I think that will be enough space. :) As I understand it, the Red Hat Installation will give me a choice to make a dual boot configuration. Is there anything else I need to do? Also, I wonder whether or not all four iso's are really needed. It seems like in each of the much earlier installations each existed on one CD. I will appreciate any help or advice anyone will give. Thank you
From: General Schvantzkoph on 27 Feb 2007 14:51 On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:10:26 -0500, Jack Gillis wrote: > Years ago I installed boxed versions of Red Hat and Mandrake distros on > their own dedicated machines. > > Now I want to install the downloaded trial version of Red Hat in a dual boot > configuration with Windows XP. I have downloaded the 4 iso's from Red Hat > and am ready to install in roughly 12g of unallocated space --I think that > will be enough space. :) > > As I understand it, the Red Hat Installation will give me a choice to make a > dual boot configuration. Is there anything else I need to do? > > Also, I wonder whether or not all four iso's are really needed. It seems > like in each of the much earlier installations each existed on one CD. > > I will appreciate any help or advice anyone will give. > > Thank you All of the RH distros are available as a DVD, you don't have to use CDs. RH has always used a lot of CDs but it's grown over the years, the DVD makes the install more convenient because you don't have to keep feeding the installer. Which version are you using, Fedora Core 6 is the current free RH. There are also clones of RHEL4 such as Scientific Linux and CentOS. You only want to use RHEL if you have an old machine or you really need RHEL compatibility because you are using a commercial application that requires it. RHEL uses really old components so it's a pain to use for modern hardware. For example it can't automatically handle a 1680x1050 screen, you would have to hand edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you had one. FC6 on the other hand is up to date, it can handle most modern hardware with a minimum of fuss.
From: Phil Sherman on 28 Feb 2007 16:58 Red hat installations usually install most of the system from the first couple of disks. Small bits & pieces are installed from the others. My usual procedure for "safe" dual boot system is to use at least two partitions for Linux. A small 100-200mb primary partition for /boot and an extended partition for the file system root (/) with at least 8g of space. I install grub on the boot partition and setup the system using a partitioning tool to boot from the primary partition containing grub. Edit the grub configuration file and add the commands to boot your Win partition and you'll have a dual boot system. If you ever need to totally eliminate Linux, change the bootable partition to the one containing Win and you'll be back to the original system. Phil Sherman Jack Gillis wrote: > Years ago I installed boxed versions of Red Hat and Mandrake distros on > their own dedicated machines. > > Now I want to install the downloaded trial version of Red Hat in a dual boot > configuration with Windows XP. I have downloaded the 4 iso's from Red Hat > and am ready to install in roughly 12g of unallocated space --I think that > will be enough space. :) > > As I understand it, the Red Hat Installation will give me a choice to make a > dual boot configuration. Is there anything else I need to do? > > Also, I wonder whether or not all four iso's are really needed. It seems > like in each of the much earlier installations each existed on one CD. > > I will appreciate any help or advice anyone will give. > > Thank you > >
From: Jack Gillis on 28 Feb 2007 17:58 "Phil Sherman" <psherman(a)ameritech.net> wrote in message news:QVmFh.270$uo3.227(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... > Red hat installations usually install most of the system from the first > couple of disks. Small bits & pieces are installed from the others. > > My usual procedure for "safe" dual boot system is to use at least two > partitions for Linux. A small 100-200mb primary partition for /boot and an > extended partition for the file system root (/) with at least 8g of space. > I install grub on the boot partition and setup the system using a > partitioning tool to boot from the primary partition containing grub. Edit > the grub configuration file and add the commands to boot your Win > partition and you'll have a dual boot system. If you ever need to totally > eliminate Linux, change the bootable partition to the one containing Win > and you'll be back to the original system. > > > Phil Sherman Thank you Phil Sounds perfect. I wonder if, by chance, I decided to rededicate the machine to Windows a want to remove Grub from the MBR and restore the MBR to its original shape. How would I go about that? I suppose booting from a WinXP CD using fixmbr or something like that might do it. Thanks again.
From: Phil Sherman on 1 Mar 2007 11:57
By using two primary partitions, you don't have to install grub in the mbr. All mbr booters will let you select any primary partition st the "base" bootable partition. PM has a good GUI interface to select which one you want to use which avoids overlaying the mbr. Phil Sherman Jack Gillis wrote: > "Phil Sherman" <psherman(a)ameritech.net> wrote in message > news:QVmFh.270$uo3.227(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >> Red hat installations usually install most of the system from the first >> couple of disks. Small bits & pieces are installed from the others. >> >> My usual procedure for "safe" dual boot system is to use at least two >> partitions for Linux. A small 100-200mb primary partition for /boot and an >> extended partition for the file system root (/) with at least 8g of space. >> I install grub on the boot partition and setup the system using a >> partitioning tool to boot from the primary partition containing grub. Edit >> the grub configuration file and add the commands to boot your Win >> partition and you'll have a dual boot system. If you ever need to totally >> eliminate Linux, change the bootable partition to the one containing Win >> and you'll be back to the original system. >> >> >> Phil Sherman > > Thank you Phil > > Sounds perfect. I wonder if, by chance, I decided to rededicate the machine > to Windows a want to remove Grub from the MBR and restore the MBR to its > original shape. How would I go about that? I suppose booting from a WinXP > CD using fixmbr or something like that might do it. > > Thanks again. > > |