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I'm currently running Win98. I just bought Red Hat Linux 6.2. I created a partition with Partition Magic 4.0 to install Linux but there was a problem and it had to do with how PM made the partiton. Next I'm going to try using Disk Druid. I'm a newbie to the Linux environment and have no idea where to start. All I know is that I reboot with the start-up disk and choose custim install. During the custom install I would choose to use Disk Druid. I need somebody to give specific steps on how to use the Disk Druid utility to make the partition and install Linux. Then I need to know the steps on what I need to do to at each boot up on how I choose on whether loading Win98 or Linux. Thx to anybody who replies.
You need to make 2 partitions minimum to install linux. root and swap.For RH6.2 root should be at least 1.5-2.0 gig to install everything. Swap equil to amount of mem you have or more.
Make them with patition magic! Disk druid can mess up your master boot record.
Start your install. Select disk druid.
Find the partition you made.Select edit.
Put / where it says mount point.Select ok or done.Tab and arrow keys get you around.
Also select custom install unless you want your master boot record overwritten!!! Select put lilo in first section of boot partition.
If you then install the ibm boot manager from partition magic you can select what you want to boot. Must be in first gig or two of first hard drive.
I suggest doing things this way to keep things separated until you learn more.
Also if something happens and you can't boot win98. Boot a boot disk and type fdisk/mbr
Make them with patition magic! Disk druid can mess up your master boot record.
Start your install. Select disk druid.
Find the partition you made.Select edit.
Put / where it says mount point.Select ok or done.Tab and arrow keys get you around.
Also select custom install unless you want your master boot record overwritten!!! Select put lilo in first section of boot partition.
If you then install the ibm boot manager from partition magic you can select what you want to boot. Must be in first gig or two of first hard drive.
I suggest doing things this way to keep things separated until you learn more.
Also if something happens and you can't boot win98. Boot a boot disk and type fdisk/mbr
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First ,
1) Boot with the WIN98 partition. If it is partitioned already , then goto step #4
2) Run the utility call defragment ( which will move the relocatable FAT
clusters - making life easier for PM and like tools ) and reboot the computer
3) Boot with the dos bootable disk and Run PM and make the partitions.
( look into the man pages and technical doc. of PM - very descriptive )
4) Boot with Linux Bootable Disk/floppy and installation use disk druid / fdisk to create a linux partitions on it. ( custom installations and disk druid
will have some help keys which will give you good information on how to
proceed on that.
5) At the end of installation, before the lilo is been written onto the disk
It asks whether to update lilo with the OS in the non-linux partition.
Or after ur setup is complete boot with linux and update the /etc/lilo.conf
with label, root, etc ( see the man pages of lilo ) and run /sbin/lilo and reboot.
I hope this will help you