On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:41:42 -0600 Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just bought a sony laptop with the 900MHz duron and am going to set it > up as dual boot at first. The 15GB drive came partitioned in 2 chunks > and I thought I simply place RH7.2 on what windows sees as the D: > drive. It looks like it is really a logical in an extended partition. > > Two real questions before I start. > > 1) will grub or lilo simply boot XP as the other operating system just > like win9X or has enough changed that I will need to do somehting else? > > 2) can I install linux in the extended partition? I would probably > create my typical seperate partitions : /, /boot, /var, /tmp, /usr, > /home, swap. These partition numbers would obviously start at hda5 and > be way into the disk. I have not done the dual boot thing in so long I > thought I would ask the gurus before starting. > > 3) (bonus question) when I started the install to see if I was going to > have any immediate hardware issues before punting I noticed the laptop > installation option. I have never done one of the standard config > installs and probably won't this time but does anyone know what apps get > installed with the laptop option? Are there new laptop targeted apps > since 6.2 I should install? ========================================== I recently installed RH 7.2 on a Sony Vaio PIII 900. Same HD as yours with similar config. I just deleted the D: drive and had the installation write there. No problems and grub dual boots from the get-go! I chose the laptop installation, and since my guess is that our hardwar is quite similar (if not identical, `cept the processor) you should have no problem. The installation even recognized the CDR/DVD and put scsi support in the kernel it built. HTH, Mike -- "It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone.... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone." --Plato _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
