You don't need to Re-install linux in order to make it work from your
second Hard drive without exchanging it with the first hard drive.
You will only need edit /etc/lilo.conf and re-run it (have a look at the
documentation for lilo, man lilo.conf is a good start).
The idea is to install lilo boot on your first hard drive (the one with
win98 installed) so that lilo prompt you to launch either win98 on the
first hard drive or linux on the second hard drive.
/dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmounted means that you did not shut your
computer properly or that the scripts in /etc/rc were not able to unmount
/dev/hda3 before halting the system. When you reboot, the little pause
you see is the time for the kernel to check that everything is OK on this
filesystem (and to repair things that could be not OK).
To avois this, shut down your computer properly (command shutdown , try
man shutdown). NB this command (shutdown) is usually mapped to the 3keys
salute CTRL-HALT-DEL so you couls shut down properly hitting these 3 keys
....
Hope this helps !!
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Zainal Abidin ACN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: vendredi 26 février 1999 11:05
À: linux newbie
Objet: Two newbie's question
Hi,
I'm a newbie on this great OS.
I have two questions now.
Anybody can help, please.
1st question;
I have two HDs;
-6GB on which I have Win98 installed and
-1.2GB with a map like this: -200MB, FAT16 DOS partition
-the rest, Linux Swap&root partitions
already both installed & running.
I usually work like this;
-If I want to work with Win98 I connect the 1st HD as master,
dosn't matter with the 2nd HD.
-But if I want to work with Linux I have to switch the HDs first.
Can I [re]install my new RedHat Linux 5.1 onto my second HD attached
as primary slave without disturbing my Win98,
in order to avoid that so much hassle job?
In other word, can I install Linux onto second HD second partition?
Any guidence on the install process is higly appreciated.
2nd question;
What does this message mean:
/dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmount, check forced
While this message is displayed the booting process seems to be
stopping. But after a quite a long time I was suprised it continue
the booting.
Thanks.
Zain
