[TriLUG] Newbie RH Install Question

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Tue Jun 29 10:40:39 EDT 2004


You need to resize your windows partition with partition magic, or another
partition tool that can handle the NTFS resizing to make room for Red Hat.
Then be sure to install Redhat on the free space. Redhat will have a menu in
set up that allows you to name your boot options and it will,, with the
information you provide set up LILO or GRUB.

Brian types faster than I do it would seem, so rather than suggest it first,
I'll have to second Brian's suggestion about skipping RH9 and installing
Fedora Core 2 with its 2.6 kernel goodness. Red Hat EOL'd 9 support in
April. You can get community support for RH9 from the legacy project, but
Fedora core gives you many more options. 

Dave S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A.
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:24 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] Newbie RH Install Question
> 
> Question: I want to install RH9 (perhaps others to come 
> afterward), on my current XP machine.
> 
> My question is(and I'm sure the answer is yes, but why not 
> ask the experts first:), is RH smart enough to ask me to 
> "dual boot", and not kill my XP installation? (Still need to 
> play Starcraft, you know. :)
> 
> wab.
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