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From: Jack Gillis on 27 Feb 2007 13:59
I have downloaded the iso's (Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4) for the trial version of
Red Hat. I would like to install it on an Windows XP machine so that I can
choose either to boot to. I have roughly 12g of unallocated space on my
first (Master) drive and I'm quite sure that is more than enough. As I
understand it, the installation process offers me the 'dual boot' option.
Are there other ways to do it? Can someone help me out here?

Also, I said I had downloaded 4 iso files. Now I wonder if all that was
necessary for it seems like an awful lot of data for just Linux. If I don't
need them all, which should I burn to CD's.

Thank you very much.

BTW, I have installed boxed versions of Mandrake and Red Hat on stand alone
machines but never tried to do it for dual boot and each distro existed on
one CD as I recall but that was many years ago.


From: dold on 27 Feb 2007 14:23
Jack Gillis <XXXXXXXX(a)widomaker.com> wrote:
> I have downloaded the iso's (Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4) for the trial version of
> Red Hat. I would like to install it on an Windows XP machine so that I can
> choose either to boot to. I have roughly 12g of unallocated space on my
> first (Master) drive and I'm quite sure that is more than enough. As I
> understand it, the installation process offers me the 'dual boot' option.
> Are there other ways to do it? Can someone help me out here?

If it's on the same disk,
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html ought to work out
well. It did for me. I didn't create a separate /boot partition, I just
deleted that from the auto-configured list. I set 5G for /, double-ram for
/swap, and left some additional unallocated space that I'll use eventually.
My initial install occupies 1.5G in /.

If it's not on the same disk, you might need additional Windows software.
I used http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
Install Linux, grub on a partition, not the MBR, boot Windows, run
bootpart.

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From: Jack Gillis on 27 Feb 2007 14:49

<dold(a)50.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:es20eo$oo5$2(a)blue.rahul.net...
> Jack Gillis <XXXXXXXX(a)widomaker.com> wrote:
>> I have downloaded the iso's (Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4) for the trial version of
>> Red Hat. I would like to install it on an Windows XP machine so that I
>> can
>> choose either to boot to. I have roughly 12g of unallocated space on my
>> first (Master) drive and I'm quite sure that is more than enough. As I
>> understand it, the installation process offers me the 'dual boot' option.
>> Are there other ways to do it? Can someone help me out here?
>
> If it's on the same disk,
> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html ought to work out
> well. It did for me. I didn't create a separate /boot partition, I just
> deleted that from the auto-configured list. I set 5G for /, double-ram
> for
> /swap, and left some additional unallocated space that I'll use
> eventually.
> My initial install occupies 1.5G in /.
>
> If it's not on the same disk, you might need additional Windows software.
> I used http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
> Install Linux, grub on a partition, not the MBR, boot Windows, run
> bootpart.
>
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> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
>

Thank you very much. However, I am not sure what you mean by 'If it's on
the same disk.'. What is 'it'? And which disk?
Sorry to be so dense.


From: Dan Espen on 27 Feb 2007 14:52
dold(a)50.usenet.us.com writes:

> Jack Gillis <XXXXXXXX(a)widomaker.com> wrote:
>> I have downloaded the iso's (Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4) for the trial version of
>> Red Hat. I would like to install it on an Windows XP machine so that I can
>> choose either to boot to. I have roughly 12g of unallocated space on my
>> first (Master) drive and I'm quite sure that is more than enough. As I
>> understand it, the installation process offers me the 'dual boot' option.
>> Are there other ways to do it? Can someone help me out here?
>
> If it's on the same disk,
> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html ought to work out
> well. It did for me. I didn't create a separate /boot partition, I just
> deleted that from the auto-configured list. I set 5G for /, double-ram for
> /swap, and left some additional unallocated space that I'll use eventually.
> My initial install occupies 1.5G in /.
>
> If it's not on the same disk, you might need additional Windows software.
> I used http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
> Install Linux, grub on a partition, not the MBR, boot Windows, run
> bootpart.

I'm not sure I'd use those instructions.
The 1024 cyl boot thing is not an issue on all
but the oldest systems.

I'd put the loader on the MBR and use the Linux install CD to do any
partition resizing needed.

Partition Magic has caused me all kinds of problems.
I can't recommend it.
From: dold on 27 Feb 2007 17:12
Jack Gillis <XXXXXXXX(a)widomaker.com> wrote:
> <dold(a)50.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:es20eo$oo5$2(a)blue.rahul.net...

> > If it's on the same disk,

> Thank you very much. However, I am not sure what you mean by 'If it's on
> the same disk.'. What is 'it'? And which disk?
> Sorry to be so dense.

If you have a single disk, the instructions for "dd" and boot.ini will
work. I had two disks in the desktop that I wanted to dual boot, and it
didn't work.

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