Re: dual boot

2003-07-17 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:34 AM 7/17/2003 -0600, Anna G. Zapata wrote: Hello all, I would like to install RH 8.0 on my W2K laptop (a dual boot). I entered the installation program without a problem and finally came upon the partioning section of the setup. I clicked to use an automatic partition and clicked next

Re: dual boot

2003-07-17 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
Nothing You don't have large enough HD for a dual boot and data. On my laptop I have a 50 GB partitioned as follows. hda1 10 GB Windows XP hda2 20 GB Common Data hda3 100 Mb Linux /boot hda4 10 GB Linux / hda5 10 GB Linux /home Point is I am not sure I have enough HD if I attem

Re: dual boot

2003-07-17 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Anna G. Zapata wrote: > > I would like to install RH 8.0 on my W2K laptop (a dual boot). I entered > the installation program without a problem and finally came upon the > partioning section of the setup. I clicked to use an automatic partition > and click

dual boot

2003-07-17 Thread Anna G. Zapata
Hello all, I would like to install RH 8.0 on my W2K laptop (a dual boot). I entered the installation program without a problem and finally came upon the partioning section of the setup. I clicked to use an automatic partition and clicked next. I was told that there wasn't enough disk

Re: shared partition for dual boot

2003-07-11 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:36 PM 7/11/2003 -0500, James Miller wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How would I determine what the desktop I am running > is? I thought that Gnome was the desktop environment... I have a lot to learn I > think. > > I will need to check on the

Re: shared partition for dual boot

2003-07-11 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How would I determine what the desktop I am running > is? I thought that Gnome was the desktop environment... I have a lot to learn I > think. > > I will need to check on the etc/fstab information... I doubt that it is there

Re: shared partition for dual boot

2003-07-11 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just done my home computer with a dual boot (using grub) for Redhat 9 and W2K. > There is a 97GB partition that I'm hoping to be able to access with both systems. > Right now I have formatted that to FAT32 using W2K utilit

shared partition for dual boot

2003-07-11 Thread dbentson
I've just done my home computer with a dual boot (using grub) for Redhat 9 and W2K. There is a 97GB partition that I'm hoping to be able to access with both systems. Right now I have formatted that to FAT32 using W2K utilities and W2K sees it just fine as the E drive. What's my

Re: problems with dual boot

2002-10-25 Thread cr
On Friday 25 October 2002 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) > > > Doing fdisk /dev/hda > > gives me the error "Unable to load /dev/hda" > > if this is a typo for open, > maybe you were not root and had not permission? > > Why do you need fdisk? Do you not know w

Re: problems with dual boot

2002-10-25 Thread lawson_whitney
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Hi All, > > My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0) > Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems. > Someone else was using it and now when I select the > Linux option at boot time, it says that some > kerne

Re: problems with dual boot

2002-10-24 Thread Bryan Simmons
: > Hi All, > > My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0) > Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems. > Someone else was using it and now when I select the > Linux option at boot time, it says that some > kernel.exe file is missing and does not boot

problems with dual boot

2002-10-24 Thread Abhijit Vijay
Hi All, My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0) Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems. Someone else was using it and now when I select the Linux option at boot time, it says that some kernel.exe file is missing and does not boot. Windows boots fine. I tried using a

Installing Linux: dual boot, fips?

2002-10-09 Thread Redjamand Kejvan
Hi I have a laptop with Win XP already installed. I don't know how difficult it could be not reformating the hard disk and repartitioning withthe existing XP. The first question is, well, which way is better? Other questions: 1. How many partition is possible to have on a PC? I can make it more c