very 1st question from a newbie...
Hi everyone,
I've just purchased a PC with an AMD 64 cpu and 2 HDD. My original intention is to install Windows (2000 or XP) on one HDD and Linux RH 8 on the other HDD. Upon reading some articles in this forum, I have realized the idea of creating a dual-boot system (even with 2 HDD in a PC) seems like a very complicated one. Can any of you help me on how to accomplish this? (i.e. how to install both Windows and Linux on 2 different HDD for a dual boot PC system) My past experience... install windows OS on a PC and use some UNIX commands at school... (After reading some articles from this forum, I'm still very confused about what LILO and GRUB are) Thank you very much for your help, I look forward to hear from you. Yours sincerely, linuxlinus (a linux newbie) :newbie: |
Hi.
The redhat installer will take care of this for you - the defaults work fine (redhat installs GRUB by default). Basically, install Windows, on the 1st HD (windows doesn't like it when you install on the second), then install Redhat 8 on the second, and it will detect your windows installation and configure accordingly. Once Redhat's installed you can figure out how it works. Dave |
Also - try a search on this site - the question has been asked hundreds of times over the last 6 months.
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It's not difficult at all.
Install Windows first, on the first drive. When that's done, install Linux on the second drive, installing the bootloader in MBR (first harddrive)....it'll be sweet, really it will. ...except I don't know if win2000 will install on a 64bit machine.... |
Hi,
I'm new to linux myself, but I can tell you how I did a duel boot install on two hard drives. I had winXP installed on the first hard drive (hda) and had been using the computer for sometime befor I bought a second hard drive (hdb) to install linux (Fedora) on. I installled my new second HD and made it the slave and the winXP drive the master. I read it's best to have win install first as it's happy when it's the first OS Durring install of Linux it ask what drive to partition and I picked my new drive hdb (win was already on hda) and from there Linux/Fedora partitioned and installed everything. I rebooted and had a screen were I could pick to boot into winXP or Linux. So I have winXP on hda the master HD and Fedora on hdb the slave HD LILO is a program (boot loader) that resides on your drive's master boot record. It boots a number of operating systems, including windows and Linux, and allows you to select to which to boot at startup time. GRUB is a differant boot loader. I'm not sure what the differance is in them. When I installed Debian it installed LILO for me. When I installed Fedora it installed GRUB. They each give me a screen at the begaining were you pick to run winXP or Linux I have found that what help most when learning Linux is to read, read and read some more. It's unreal how much helpful information there is online about linux. I have been spending hours and hours every night reading about linux. You may now have more questions, as I may not have been much help. This is just the way I went about doing a duel boot. |
thanks for your help...
Hello everyone,
Thank you for giving me advice on how to install a dual-boot (Win2000/RH8_linux) PC system. I have installed them successfully last evening. Then I realize the following problems, and wonder if you can give me some advice. 1) During post installation video/monitor setup, I can't find my monitor and graphics card models... so I picked the closest ones... Now (after installation), can I modify my vidoe setup (i.e. video ram size, graphics card chipset)??? How can I do this? 2) My on board (motherboard) sound chipset is not recognized by GNOME and KDE, how can I fix this? I believe it's an AC97 CODEC... Is there a way to find out exactly what it is, and fix it? It complains about "/dev/dsp" not found... 3) I have installed both GNOME and KDE, will this cause me any problem? Should I keep one and delay the other? If so, how can I do this? 4) After o/s installation, I realize my linux o/s can be boot up with decent speed; but when I boot my PC with my Win2000, it's about 20x (20 times) slower than before (i.e. when only Win2000 was in my PC, not linux RH8); what's the cause for this? Can any of you give me some advice on how to fix this speed issue? (It's like taking FOREVER to wait for Win2000 to boot and/or shut down my PC). Finally, for those who are interested in installing RH 8.0 or 9.0; but seeking for info... you can go to the official red hat web site... they have very good reference materials on how to install both versions. I believe they also have RH9 for people to download... Thank you once again for your advice and help, I look forward to more helpful advice from you. Yours sincerely, Linuxlinus :newbie: |
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Hi again.
1) There's a file called XF86Config in /etc/ You'll have to be root to edit this, but this will let you define what drivers to use for your graphics card, and what resolutions are available etc. It's a bit daunting when you first look at it, but it's quite logical once you get your head round it. There's been plenty of posts on this forum dealing with how to set up this file. Alternatively (and definitely easier) is to use the 'Display' utility (in KDE it's in the K Menu -> System Settings -> Display. It's in the Gnome menu in a similar place too.) 2) The AC97 codec is supported, but you'll have to load the module for your motherboard to get it to work. You may also have to create /dev/dsp (a single command) and you might have to make some entries in /etc/modules.conf (just a couple of lines to add). Post back with your motherboard make and model, and we'll see what we can do. 3) It's probably best to have both desktops installed - a lot of programs rely on parts of KDE or Gnome, so you'd have problems later on installing software if you didn't have these. 4) I'm not too sure about this. I used to dual boot with RH9 and Win2000 and never noticed any slowdown. It could be that Windows is trying to access the Linux disk to see what's on it, but because it's (I imagine) formatted as ext3 or ext2, it can't. Other than that I can't see any reasons - Windows effectively doesn't know your Linux installation is there. Do you have any anti-virus software installed? The same thing could be causing it to keep trying to read your Linux disk when it can't understand the format. Dave. |
retype my thanks and questions...
Hello everyone,
Thank you for your advice/help/input. Q1) "video/display setup" After logging in as root, I have found the video setup now recognize the correct memory size on my video card, but still not the correct graphics chipset (I chose the closest one during my RH8 installation). Will this cause any problem? (i.e. I picked Nvidia Quadro instead of Nvidia FX5700 chipset) Q2) "AC97 CODEC (on board sound) not work" I can't find /dev/dsp file, but I'll take another look at it. Meanwhile I'll read others' sound chip/card - linux setup articles. I look forward to your advice. Q3) Thanks for the info, I'll keep both GNOME and KDE desktop environment. Q4) "Win2k boot/shutdown too slow" Prior to my RH8 Linux installation, I have installed Win2k, a CPU monitoring software, and Norton Internet Security software. The last 2 software come with motherboard. Now should I uninstall and re-install the Norton Internet Security software? My original intention was to have win2k and RH8 linux on 2 physically separated HDD; and to have my linux bootloader attached to my hda vfat section (i.e. dual-boot setup). Finally, thank you once again for your advice and help. I look forward to hear from you again. Yours sincerely, Linuxlinus :newbie: |
Can you tell us what your video card is?, also knowing your sound card chipset would be really useful. If you don't know the answer download this on windows http://www.aida32.hu/download/aida32ee_390.zip
There you can see your device's names and post them here Quote:
Just out of curiosity are you using RH8 because of any particular reason? if not I think you should try something lighter like mandrake 9.2, since this is your first linux install mandrake is a great choice, I'm not saying RH8 is bad (well I haven't really tried it though) but I've used RH9 and you have to do a bunch more of stuff than mandrake to get it working. Once you feel you have dominated and still wanna learn more then you can try RH or slackware or something like that. |
AC97 CODEC and win2k/RH8 slow...
Hello everyone,
The AC97 CODEC chip is soldered on my Gigabyte GA-K8N motherboard. It's currently working in win2k, but not in RH8 environment. Is there a way (after logging in RH8 environment) to find out what RH8 recognize (or not) this device as? Or is there a way to fix this mute problem? It's (in KDE environment) complaining missing /dev/dsp. The video card that I have is made by ASUS with Nvidia FX5700 chipset. When I installed RH8, I picked the closest chipset choice (i.e. Nvidia Quadro). I guess it's closest because both are almost the newest technology from Nvidia (i.e. 0.13um CMOS). I also compared the memory bandwidth, both are 128-bit. Not sure if this is good enough for me to pick "Quadro". I haven't installed any additional IA64 drivers from Nvidia web site, as I assume both my Nvidia nForce3 150 chipset (motherboard) and Nvidia FX5700 chipset (graphics) should have the correct driver for my AMD64 and RH8 hardware/software environment. (Sorry, my above assumption sounds very stupid...) My last question regards to extremely slow boot up and shutdown speed in my win2k environment. I've installed win2k before RH8, hence I can see the HUGH speed difference for my win2k bootup/shutdown time. The partition that I made... HDD#1 -> hda1 -> win2k HDD#2 -> hdb1,2,3 -> RH8 Linux (Right now, it's taking "almost forever" for win2k to bootup and shutdown my pc) Once again, thank you very much for your advice/help/input. I look forward to hear from you. Yours sincerely, Linuxlinux :newbie: |
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