Just spouting my two cents, giving you what I think is worth reading. Always
backup anything worth keeping. :)
> 2) What's the best way to install windows and redhat 6.1 on a drive? I
I have setup several machines triple-booting, that is Lilo loads, defaults
to NT, then NT loader loads and defaults the Win9x. This works well, the
trick is in the order that you install it. First install the Windows system
(do it normally but dont use the whole drive during Fdisk (use like 45% or 3
gig or so)) and then install Redhat (on the 6.1 installer select the Gnome
workstation and it will install linux and add the dos option to the lilo
config then when you get the lilo boot prompt smack 'tab' and the boot
labels will be printed out.
> 1) How do I do this and still access the old drive?
Perhaps set the old drive as a secondary? Depends on the type of access, if
it is a really old drive and NOT UDMA (and the new drive is UDMA) then put
the old drive as the primary on the secondary controller (and if you have a
IDE cdrom put it as slave on the secondary controller). Just an idea. Also
during the Redhat 6 install (clean install, I dont do unix upgrades, sure
someone else can help you there) you can select the drive and give it a
mount point from Disk Druid.
> 3) I'm looking for a fairly large drive. Any suggestions as to brands?
Give the IBM DeskPro's a look, they have fast access, large cache and
excellent spindle speeds. I have several dozen of these deployed and give
very little trouble. I would run like a chicken-on-fire from anything with
Western Digital printed on it. IMHO. Here is a link, so you can get an idea
about the IBM drives.
http://necxdirect.necx.com/hai/prod_page.html?key=0000136021&nonce=guest
> 4) Anything else I need to know? Pointers to partitioning info for a
> larger drive, etc.
Make sure you have a fairly recent bios, might check your motherboard makers
website for BIOS updates, FAQ's and such regarding large drives. Some
software have a real problem with anything above 1024 cyl's but the Redhat
6.1 and Windows 98 have no problem like this (well ok with the 15 gig drives
anyhow, maybe choke on the titantic drives (like 37 gig and such).
> 5) I also want to install more ram. I know I have to do something to
> make linux register the larger ram, but what?
Eh? Maybe on a upgrade, but if you smack it and install clean (you need to
do that for the Windows dual boot thing anyhow). You should have no
problems, as long as the machine sees it (reports OK in the POST).
> That's it. Thanks for any help.
Well dont know if it's a help or not, better than working on my code this
morning :)
Good Luck,
HTH,
Later..
Steven
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