You have to install linux within 8 GB that is 1024 cylinders ..check the bios to enable large disk support.

ok, let us understand!
You have two disks, so one is master and this other is slave.
so you must boot from the master , and install your lilo one this one.

you would better format you root and usr partitions
you create other partitions on any of your disk, if you want to install windows for example;

I hope this help you to solve your problem
bye

The 1024-limit isn't an issue here. Maxtor drives install with LBA enabled and any computer that can run XP has a modern bios.

abd_beta raises a good point. I spun off on configuring just the 60 GB drive with 2 operating systems because the 40 GB is deemed unreliable. If the desire is to install on and use both disks, he'll need to modify my instructions a little.

Linux, then Windows? If he was very experienced at dual-booting and remapping for non-standard Windows installations, this might be a fun exercise for him.

Given his first couple of posts, that would not seem to be the case. Let's not complicate this for him. Let's keep it simple and remove as many variables as we can.

The easiest set up is to first install Windows and make it happy, then install Linux and the boot loader.

He had Windows installed and needs to reinstall it. Now he just needs to add Linux. The Red Hat 8.0 Installation Guide says that Red Hat will not install in active spaces (unless reformatting the entire hard drive). He just needs to give RH some empty space. I gave him my thoughts on how to partition the hard drive, but it is his computer. He can partition it however he wants.

Why Linux at the tail end? To prevent Windows problems, without having to hide/unhide partitions. Windows doesn't understand anything but its own file systems. If you have ever stuck an unformatted or bad floppy in a computer and tried to access it, you know the long time Windows takes to figure out it cannot read the disk. This is what it can do with Linux partitions unless you take advantage of another Windows trait--it will treat Linux partitions at the end of the disk the same as unused space. Basically, it ignores them and both operating systems play nice together.

While there are many ways to set up his computer, this is the simplest I know of.