[TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98

[Frye, Matthew]

I've done RH9 and Winders98, but on the same disk partitioned.  Only problem
I run into is Winders freezes up after I've been in RH9 before it.  Haven't
had time to troubleshoot that, otherwise the setup's grand.

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> From: 	Chris Bullock[SMTP:cgbullock at cox.net]
> Reply To: 	Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Sent: 	Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:02 AM
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> Subject: 	Re: [TriLUG] RH9 Dual Boot with Win98
> 
> 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!
> >
> 
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