[UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win

[Karol Finfando]

thanks for warning...
what if i have two HD and i use one for Linux?
I'm doing it because i haven't done it yet...  :-)
(there is still some time left before school will start)
only ISA i'll have will be modem, but i heard that there are PCI modems that
work with linux so i may end up getting PCI modem, anyway thanks,
Karol


"Chan, Michael J" wrote:

> Karol,
>
> just to warn you, that if you put all the partitions onto one hard drive,
> you want to make sure that the parimary linux partition (root fs) is within
> the first 1024 cylinders on the hard drive... (linux needs to be somewhere
> near the front of the hd) or else lilo will hang, and you'll have all sorts
> of trouble restoring NT's boot loader if LILO craps out on you... NT doesn't
> have the best restoration utilities out there...
>
> Personally, you may want to consider installing linux onto another machine
> if you have it... Having 3 OSes on one box starts having problems further
> down the line with hardware upgrades, etc.etc.etc... (resetting IRQs in
> win98 blows NT and Linux sometimes if you have ISA stuff... PCI usually
> works fine)
>
> Any reason besides testing that you want to have all 3 OSes? just
> wondering...
>
> mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karol Finfando [mailto:kfando@ucla.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:33 AM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win
>
> but there is that prompt from NT that asks you if you want to load NT or
> Win98,
> so you are saying that LILO will come up before that? (I had Win9x and Linux
> before, so i know about LILO, i'm worried about that thing from NT),
> maybe i should just use System Commander...  hmmm
>
> "Tran, Daniel" wrote:
>
> > if your intention is to keep win9x and NT then the RH6.0 installation
> should
> > go ok.
> > Do custom installation where you have to define linux ext2 partition and
> > swap partition.  There's an automated install option which will wipe out
> > everything.
> >
> > At the end of installation you will need to install lilo which will go
> into
> > your master boot record (mbr).
> > upon reboot, you will see the LILO: prompt.  Hitting the tab key will
> allow
> > you to select windows or linux.
> > Make sure lilo.conf is configured correctly.
> >
> > The LILO prompt will come up everytime you reboot the system.
> > I have a lot of OSes on my system so I use System Commander
> >
> > Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Karol Finfando [mailto:kfando@ucla.edu]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:14 AM
> > > To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > > Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about installing RH 6.0 on machine that already
> > > has Win9x and NT
> > > 4.0, are there any complications, anything that i should be aware of?
> > > Anyone tried that?
> > > Karol
> > >
> > >
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