mairving — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:36:56 +0000

Run it with Windows as in 'install it on the same computer in a different partition.

I would install XP first, leaving some empty area on your hard drive of about 5-10GB (depending on your hard drive). Example:
40GB Hard Drive, Create a partition of 30GB leaving the rest as free space.

When XP is up and running, install RedHat on the empty free space. Install the boot loader, lilo, I think, reboot and you should be able to choose both OS's. Make sure that you make a RedHat bootdisk, in case XP overwrites the boot sector.

go2jacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 16:53:34 +0000

im trying to install red hat 9.0

What do you mean by "run it with windows?"

What I want is for Windows XP to be my default OS, and Linux as a second OS.

When i first install linux i accidently installed it over everything, so i lost all my info etc. But when i started my computer up it came to a screen which let me choose which OS i wanted, but it only had Linux to select, so im guessing if i have both linux and XP then the same screen will come up and it can choose between the two?

mairving — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:53:57 +0000

Unless you are using Windows 98, fdisk is pretty much gone. What flavor of Linux are you trying to install? Are you trying to run it with Windows?

ORBITnet — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:27:23 +0000

Linux cant creat a partition if you alrady have a partition the best thing to do is, if your going to use Windows and Linux on the same system, creat a Prm partion using FDISK / DOS, but do not use all the space on your HDD. use what you need to install Windows and Other Programs, then Leve the space you need to install Linux. after you install Windows, you can run the Linux setup form the CD, then Linux will detect the free space and it will creat the pations on the Unpation Space..... and Linux will detect the Windows and will let you choos a boot loder.... all you have to do is click next
good luck....

go2jacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:39:41 +0000

ok. i'll give that a go.

gona have to back up everything now

go2jacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:38:42 +0000

hmm...maybe i will need to format my hard drive and then create the partitions?

WuLabsWuTecH — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:38:05 +0000

I have never actually done it on automatic before but alwas manually. What you might want to try first is to format the drive first before partioning it...

brady.k — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:10:38 +0000

i have found you arent allowed to partition the drive you are currently running from...i don't know how others manage getting around this, but...