Well, for anyone interested installing Windows XP and RH 7.2 went flawlessly. Basically I started the Linux installation. I used Disk Druid to create a 25Mb /boot, a 16GB partition (it won't let me make a vfat partition greater than 2GB so I made it ext3 then deleted it and rebuilt it under windows), 16GB /, 512MB swap and the balance will be a FAT32 drive. I let the install run until it started copying files. I imagine this is overkill but then again it didn't format the partition(s) until just before this.
I stopped the install with a power off and put in the Windows XP virus CD :-) It installed with no particular problems. I DID NOT allow it to select partitions for me. It installed just fine on the E: drive (not completely sure why it picked that drive but it's OK by me). Then I installed RH 7.2. I had to use Disk Druid to set up my mount points again but the partitions themselves were fine. I kept the default for GRUB, which I think installs it into the MBR. Someone had suggested against that. At any rate the installation worked fine. GRUB works fine. The system dual boots very well. I had to modify the fstab to mount up the Windows XP drive but that was no problem. I just don't know why they didn't do it for me. I could have sworn they used to. So here's the problem. I put back my original hard drive as a slave on the IDE channel. It comes up as a C: drive. I tried adding it to the GRUB menu, but I can't get it to boot. Should I be able to boot this Windows 98SE drive? When I tell it to boot from (1,0) it just hangs, although first it does identify the drive as being VFAT or FAT32. I tried using the Map (0,1) and Map (1,0). I tried at least 20 different variations but couldn't get it to boot. I don't have my notes with me right now but I used the commands exactly as stated in the GRUB manual. Thanks for any help. GGK ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
