cogenmaster
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Downloaded and installed version 9.0 of Red Hat. Installed Linux on it's own seperate harddrive which is on the master IDE channel. I have a samsung 160 GB sata drive as the cn sata channel 1 with winxp on it formatted in a NTFS file system. Read through Phantasms linux installation post and tried to follow it but I could not seem to get the druid partitioner to work well for me...guess I am just not smart enough. I partitioned the 20gig maxtor ide drive in fat 32 and I made a fat32 partition on the samsung drive to put all my music and vid files on to mount to linux. During the redhat installation it sees the 20 gig maxtor drive and version 9.0 actually automatically partitions the drive with the main partition and swap file. Made the boot diskette and rebooted after installation and continued to get a failed to boot warning. All I can assume was that I had a bad floppy I could only find one in my hole house. If i go into bios and change the hard drive boot priorty and set the maxtor to drive 1 it will boot into linux with no issue. Want to set the system to dual boot but not sure I understand phantasm instrutions to dual boot plus Vesion 9.0 installed grub as the boot loaded not lilo. My biggest problem at the time is I cannot get the internet to work. I have a Nforce 3 board and found linux drivers at Nvidias site. Installed them and ran the internet config wizard and it showed a network adapter not sure of the name now. Went through the config and all went well but mozilla will not open any sites and under the config section it says my network card is inactive. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
WinXP Home
Linux Red Hat Version 9.0
MSI NForce 3 Motherboard with on board Network
AMD 64 3000
Creative Audigy
1 gig Kingston 3200 ddr
Maxtor 20 gig ide
Samsung 160 gig sata
WinXP Home
Linux Red Hat Version 9.0
MSI NForce 3 Motherboard with on board Network
AMD 64 3000
Creative Audigy
1 gig Kingston 3200 ddr
Maxtor 20 gig ide
Samsung 160 gig sata