Hi guys !
I have tried like crazy to get linux and win98 installed and dual boot but am just not able to . I have a 20 GB hd of which I require 16 GB for win98 and 4 gb for linux(red hat 6.2). what partition structure am I to make ? how am I to go about the installation. If possible please detail out the steps for me ! I'm frustrated !
Thanks
Ashwin



[Edited by ashpai on 02-25-2001 at 07:01 AM]

I have posted detailed instructions on this in under the topic "Partitioning with Win98"

I guess I need to do a HOW-TO and put on my website.

Hi Kevin,

Thanks ! I have seen the reply in the partioning with win98 . will be doing it on sunday and will keep you posted

Thanks for your time,
Ashwin

Well is very simple, first you will need a partition of at least 15 Mb inside the 1024 cylinder limit, that means before the 2.0 Gb of your hard drive. So your hard drive will look like this:

15Mb /boot partition Ext2
16Gb Windows 98 FAt 32
X Mb swap partition swap
X Mb root partition Ext2

When you have this done, install the OS, you have to install windows 98 first, in the 16 Gb, after installing windows 98 you have to install linux, mount the 15MB partition as /boot, the 16 GB as /windows (FAT32), Swap partition under /swap and for the last one use /root.

When red hat ask you where to install lilo, tell it to install it in the master boot record, but you have to modified lilo.conf to have the windows partition to boot first.

Hi friends ,

I have done the linux, win 95 dual boot. the problem now is that when I boot into win95, I receive a message saying, "Logical drives exist past Z and will be ignored". When I open the explorer I see loooooooottttts of drives from d-z . there's no drive letter left for my CD ROM !!! what do i do??

during linux install I did not mount the windows partition as /windows .. would that be a problem ?

Thanks
Ashwin

i had this problem.... the only answer i have is to use lilo
first tell me what hard drives are ware i.e. linux=hda1 win98=hdb1 etc.....

what u have to do in lilo is to trick win98 into thinking its only hdd or first hdd in system

the results i have work if u have windows on the second harddrive so linux on hda1 and win on hdb1 * linux first on ide chain win98 in middle*

this is my lilo.conf file



prompt

timeout="150"

default=linux

boot="/dev/hda"

map=/boot/map

install=/boot/boot.b

message=/boot/message



image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8"

label="kernel 2.4.20-8"

initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img"

read-only

append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"



other=/dev/hdb1

label="winxp"

table=/dev/hdb

map-drive = 0x80

to = 0x81

map-drive = 0x81

to = 0x80




this is the important part

other=/dev/hdb1

label="win98"
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

enter that into ur lilo.conf file is /etc and then run the command "/sbin/lilo -v -v" and u should be all set

hope it helps

hi guys,

i am a starter kind of a person for this linux os my issue is:

i have a HD of 40 gb in which 3 partions are there c: d: e: in c: i have installed XP and is working fine now i was willing to install the linux os on the d: which is emty but when i boot the sys with the linux i can see only two partions
/dev/hda1 which is showing like 10gb and type as ntfs and the other partions /dev/hda2 ( d: and e: ) are showing like a single partion like 28+ gb and type as SFS, so how to go abt this issue and how to see d: e: seperatly so that i can install the linux on d:. ( d: is ntfs and e: fat32)

Please help !

Sunny