Hi Thanks for that
I have installed it and it all went ok, I now get grub at boot. But I cant select the linux partition, I can select the windows one but when I press enter nothing happens....the count down goes as usual and windows loads as I set it to the default?? This is weird, I thought it was going too well! Haha Agy ideas? Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com] On Behalf Of linux power Sent: 23 October 2002 21:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie needs help please dont bite I dont know exactly how rh 8.0 works, but when I installed rh 7.2 the same way u do I had a dos partition with fat 16. But that was called hda1. The other win partitions I had was called hda5. And my linux swap partition which should be as large as your ram, was called hda6. And finally the partition where I actually installed redhat was called hda7. However when you are installing linux you are promped which partition to format. And I think you could see the size of it. Remember to format a linux swap partition. --- Dave Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Hi There > > My name is Dave Wheeler and I am a Linux newbie. > > I would really appreciate some help and guidance on > installing redhat. > > I currently have a 60bg hdd, I am running windows xp > pro. > > I have just downloaded redhat version 8.0 and have > been told that I can > install redhat over the top and it will keep my xp > data and I could use > "grub" to choose what os I boot to. > > I have used partition magic to create an unused > partition (unformatted) > of 15gb > > I have booted with the redhat disk 1 in the cd > drive, it comes up and I > start the process.. this is where I got scared as I > opted to remove all > existing Linux partitions (didn't have any!) and > went on, it found the > Linux partition and a dos one??? Is the dos one my > xp? As there was no > mention of it. > > I panicked and cancelled! > > I thought that it would have recognised the xp as an > ntfs partition? > > I would really appreciate some help! As you ca > probably tell I really > don't know what I am talking about when it comes to > linux. > > !! > > Thanks a lot > Dave wheeler > ===== http://home.no.net/~knutove/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htm ______________________________________________________ Se den nye Yahoo! Mail på http://no.yahoo.com/ Nytt design, enklere å bruke, alltid tilgang til Adressebok, Kalender og Notisbok -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
