[TriLUG] Preparing for the Installfest

[Elliot Peele]

I have a Dell Latitude 810C as well that boots rhl 7.2, rhl 7.2.93,
windows 2000, and the ncsu realmkit for redhat linux (for testing
purposes). I believe as of 7.1 booting of win2k and redhat linux was
handled automatically by either lilo or grub. You should be able to get
Redhat Linux and windows installed before the installfest.

You might have problems with the video because you probably have a
Nvidia gforce2go which for lcd displays requires the Nvidia binary
driver. You can get the drivers from Nvidias web site. I can give you a
copy if my XF86config-4 file if you want or you could just wait until
the installfest.

Elliot

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 10:48, J Johnson wrote:
> 
> I have a Dell Latitude c810 that I am typing this email on, in Outlook, on
> Windows 2000. :-( (No floggings please). Can't be helped as I develop
> Windows apps (for now), and until I can shake my money maker in Linux, will
> have to continue to do so. I'm thinking I am going to bring it to the
> Installfest so I can set it up to dual boot Linux so that I can do Windows
> when I'm at work, and do Linux the rest of the time.
> 
>  I have set up a dual boot Win98 / RHL 7.0 laptop before, and it was
> relatively brainless. I have also set up a dual boot WinNT4.0 and RH 7.0
> machine, which was not brainless. Both times the Windows OS was already
> installed when installed the Linux OS. For the WIN98 dual boot, Lilo took
> over the boot process and all was well. For the NT machine, I had to not
> install Lilo, copy some file from the linux partition to floppy, boot into
> NT, copy it to the hard  disk, and create an entry in boot.ini that pointed
> to that file. That way NTLoader would 'boot'  that file when I chose Linux
> at the startup prompt. So what I am going to get into for dual booting Win2K
> and Linux? I thought  I had read somewhere that installing RedHat on a Win2K
> box was now just like my experience with Win98, I.E. a no brainer, stick the
> RH disk in and let her rip. Anybody done this? I ask because if that's the
> case I can get the OS installed before the Installfest and then use the time
> there to tackle some more detailed stuff. Also, is it possible to safely
> mount an NTFS partition while booted into Linux?
> 
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* Elliot Peele                                                   *
* Student in Computer Science     Computer Systems Administrator *
* NC State University             Department of Physics          *      
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