[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Chris Bullock]

Never done it with RH9 or multiple HDs but I am currently dual booting 
Mandrake 9.0 and Win98.  I am sure it is simple to do, just when you are 
creating you partitions create a windows partition with a fat 
filesystem.  and be sure that your boot loader sees the windows share 
while installing.
--chris

Ian Meyer wrote:

> Hello everyone. Here's what I've got. My mom has a very tempermental 
> PC running Windoze98, and I happen to have a spare Hard Drive laying 
> around. The HD is out of my iMac, but its a standard ATA66 IDE hard 
> drive, but with two HFS+ partitions on it. Can I format it with the 
> RH9 installer and then install RH9 on it?
>
> What I want to do past that is leave in her existing HD and use it for 
> just Windows (because she'll still be booting into it from time to 
> time for some apps that she needs) and have the RH on the other drive 
> and dual boot. I was thinking that it would be easiest to make the 
> "new" hard drive the master and put the boot loader and stuff on it, 
> and make the windows drive the slave, would that work?
>
> Is there anything else I need to know before I start doing this?
>
> TIA
> Ian Meyer
> ianmeyer at mac.com
> ijmeyer at unity.ncsu.edu <-- New! WOOHOO!
>