I keep everything that I download on a seperate partition, which I mount under /store

Nodsu is following UNIX convention, though, with /usr/src , that's probably what you should do if you are being to the letter.

But its your computer and yours to be used in the way you want.

After doing a bit of reading online and finding some horror stories about trying to get the ATI Radeon 9000 pro to work properly in X, it looks like I am in for some fun times.

I am a somewhat experience linux user transitioning to a new machine. On my old machine I had RH7.3 on hda and Win98 on hdb. The RH installer configured lilo no problem on that system .. life was good.

I wanted to build a new machine.. got it built .. hardware checks out.. want to move my Win98 HD to the new machine and set it up the same way.

New machine installed RH9.0 on hda, have Win98 drive on hdb.
Have installed RH9 twice, once choosing lilo the other grub. Installs complete fine. OS menu comes up. If I choose Linux, works fine. If I choose Windows, I get an errror message about
'operating system can't be found, insert boot disk'.

If I go to BIOS and choose the hdb as boot device, it comes
right up in Win98.

Any ideas why lilo/grub are not correctly finding the OS on hdb?

Tim

Win98 does not really like living on anything other than hda (primary master.) Sometimes it will work, but more often than not, it will go pair shaped.

In any case, why are you restoring the old windows 98 install on your new machine? After a mess of plug and pray related reboots you might have something resembling normality, but at a performance cost I would wager. New machine, new install. Even move to WinXP, or if you still want Win98 just have it as a legacy, light install on c: along with Linux and WinXP on other partitions. I've heard of flogging a dead horse but keeping Win9x around as your main M$ OS these days kind of starts to look a little insane, when we have Windows 2000 at SP4 and Windows XP nearing SP2 !!!

If you are still hell bent on trying to resurrect your old system then please post copies of /etc/lilo.conf , /etc/grub.conf and of course a full breakdown of your hard drive partitioning scheme, but I am left wondering why bother when you should be happily reinstalling everything right now.

hi. I'm trying to install linux on my toshiba laptop. right now i have 1 37.something gig win xp partition. do you know of any good software to resize my partition (preferably free). Can disk druid do this. thanks in advance.

You can resize NTFS partitions with Partition Magic and Partition Commander (they are not free). SuSE Linu installer comes with a partition resizer, but it does not rearrange data and hence works well only on fully defragmented partitions.

Hi

I am running Windows XP on a single NTFS partition which covers the entire hard drive. Is it still possible to dual-boot XP with Redhat 9 with my computer's current condition?

Thanks

Not in your current "condition". You will have to resize the NTFS partition to make some room for Linux. You should give at least 5GB to Linux, 10 would be ideal.

Partition Magic and Partition Commander are programs that allow you to resize NTFS partitions.

Yeah thanks, but Partition Magic won't let me resize, or even create a new partition.

I'll give Partition Commander a shot.

By the way, I am presented with the following error during the partition configuration in Redhat's installation

"Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions"

Does the solution you gave me still apply, or is this a different problem? If so, please HELP!

Thanks again

This is exatly the problem: RedHat can't create a new partition for Linux.

What do you mean by PM not letting you resize the partition?
You need PM8 or later to resize NTFS.
Perhaps it has set your system drive to "read only"?

No it hasn't, but you're right, I've got PM 6 on XP professional. And I've just recently discovered that PM 6 isn't compatible with XP, or the NTFS file format.

I'm busy getting PM 8 Pro, so hopefully that'll help me here.

Is it a dynamic disk? PM can't resize those.

I know, but don't worry about it anymore. After much work, I finally have RedHat 9 working, and it's great.
But I want to install it in a different way, so how do you uninstall RedHat 9?

No need to double post.. I hope your question was answered in the thread you created.

Yes it was, thanks! I've got the idea of it all now!

I just a few more questions in a new thread I've posted titled "RedHat Questions" (sorry, I'm completely new to Linux, but I'm REALLY interested in it) :giddy:

After a little trouble with partitioning, I finally got linux to boot linux. However, my computer hangs everytime I try to boot windows. My set up is kind of wacky. Linux and a FAT32 partition are on my IDE3 cable while my Windows XP NTFS is on IDE1. IDE2 is for my cdrom. The bootloader is on the IDE3, but at first I put it on the MBR . I read this is very bad... any suggestions?

EDIT: Well I got it to work after some much needed sleep, and it works with LILO ON the MBR of the hdd with winxp. I can now dual-boot . A new problem has arisen! When I boot into windows I can not access the other partition that is on the same HDD as Linux. Partition Magic says its an error with regards to the partition table and claims to fix the error (which is obvious it hasn't since it immediately pops up again). Linux can see the drive just fine in the mount point i set. I think LILO may have found its way onto that drive and was wondering if there was any way to fix this? Thanks.

You will be surpised how the impossible can come you to when you take a break and relax. Remember Archimedes shouting "EUREKA!" in the bath??

If you are having problems accessing this partition, then did you partition it with linux setup? If so, then you may have to repartition it with something else... there's not very good compatibility problems between linux partitioning and windows, but windows seems better so maybe try to create it in disk administrator if its FAT32.

Under windows, you will not be able to access any ext2 or ext3 formatted partitions such as / without third party tools of some sort.

I need some help with a Linux install. I'm trying to install Linux, but I keep getting an I/O error after the installer checks for previous installations. I have a 3 gigabyte partition and 256 mb of RAM. I set up a 512 mb swap partition and made the rest my root partition. I'm not dual booting. I'm installing this to a virtual drive from Bochs. PLease help!

try a different linux installation - but first try a text only install. That will be one of the install options, you should be presented with that at one point.

which linux are you trying to install?

In Fedora Core, I think you need to enter something at the first

boot:

prompt, along the lines of

install text

or something like that to install in text mode.

if you are trying a beta or something of Fedora Core 2, I would instead try Fedora Core 1.