At 01:42 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>AAHHHHh!! okay.. i have tried to install RH 5.0 several times on my
computer, (compaq presario 4712, monster 3d,
>maxtor 8 7000d8, quantum bigfoot, 40 megs of ram, 166mhz) and i succeded
once, and that was when i did just linux, but then i tried to get it to do
a dual
>boot thing with win95, and it failed. you see, windows is setup on the
quantum bigfoot with 2.5 gigs, and then the maxtor hard-drive is on a ultra
ide
>controller, and i want to set up 3 gigs for linux on the maxtor, except
linux doesnt even see this hardrive.. if i attach it to the motherboard
instead of the
>ultra ide controller, it recondnizes it, but not the quantum. how do i get
it to see the light? is it possible for it to see both harddrives?
>
>also, what is the best linux manual? i am a total newbie to linux. 8)
thank you muches..
Let me see if I can unscramble this properly.
Start with the hardware. You have two physical hard drives, both E/IDE,
correct? If they are on the same cable, one must be jumpered as the master
drive (on the end connector) and the other must be the slave drive (on the
middle connector). If they are on two separate IDE ports, they must both be
jumpered as master and be on the end connector of each cable.
Assuming that's OK. install win95 on the master drive/primary port
(that's c: or /dev/hda1). Let win95 put its loader in the MBR. You can then
install linux where you want, for example, /dev/hda2, and make your second
drive a large /home partition (/dev/hdb1). Whatever you want will work.
When the installation asks where to install lilo, tell it to put it in the
MBR of /hda. Since the linux partition table knows about the fat16 or fat32
partition with win95, it will set up lilo.conf appropriately.
I have three hard drives on one system. Two are EIDE/UDMA drives and the
other is a regular EIDE drive (all WD, by the way). Linux sees them all
without any problem. In my case, win95 is in /dev/hda1, dos7 in /dev/hdb1
and linux in /dev/hdc1. lilo.conf is in the MBR of /hda.
HTH,
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
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