Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-30 Thread Mike Watson
All of these were fresh installs. Admin-myispnet wrote: > > then you must be doing something wrong...mandrake does it very nicely > > do a completely NEW/FRESH install ...don't do a upgrade...just do the > default install > > Mike Watson wrote: > > > > Admin-myispnet wrote: > > > > > Snip! > >

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Admin-myispnet
then you must be doing something wrong...mandrake does it very nicely do a completely NEW/FRESH install ...don't do a upgrade...just do the default install Mike Watson wrote: > > Admin-myispnet wrote: > > > Snip! > > I had mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 on the IDE, and IT setup everything great... > > a

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Watson
Admin-myispnet wrote: > Snip! > I had mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 on the IDE, and IT setup everything great... > and i was able to dual boot everything...just right. i understood, that > mandrake > is a modified version of redhat...why doesn't redhat setup everything > just like mandrake. > I don't wan

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Admin-myispnet
ok, first... I have redhat 7.1 installed on a separate 20 gig IDE HDD, setup as the primary IDE drive on a compag PII deskpro EN. I also have win98 setup on a primary scsi 9.1 gig HDD I had the lilo setup on the mbr of the 20 gig HDD with redhat installed on it I left the scsi with win98 alo

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:18:55 -0500 Admin-myispnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > Man, I'm having the same trouble with two HDD... > I have redhat 7.1 pro version installed on a maxtor 20 gig HDD > setup as primary IDE master on a compaq deskpro en PII 400mghz... > and I have win98 2nd editon ins

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Admin-myispnet
Man, I'm having the same trouble with two HDD... I have redhat 7.1 pro version installed on a maxtor 20 gig HDD setup as primary IDE master on a compaq deskpro en PII 400mghz... and I have win98 2nd editon installed on a compaq scsi 9.1 gig HDD... on a scsi controller. Someone help...in order t

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Watson
I appreciate your responses. I can change the partitions on the purely Linux side, just not the Win98 partitions. I'll work on that and see what happens. Thanks, mw ABrady wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:58:40 -0600 > Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > I know, but it's just su

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:58:40 -0600 Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > I know, but it's just such a royal pain in the a**! > > I've looked at my RH 7.2 server---which is working just fine---and the > partition there (created by DiskDruid) in not on partition boundaries > either. GRUB wor

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Watson
I know, but it's just such a royal pain in the a**! I've looked at my RH 7.2 server---which is working just fine---and the partition there (created by DiskDruid) in not on partition boundaries either. GRUB works just fine and so did LILO whilst using RH 7.1 and earlier. mw ABrady wrote: > > O

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:28:09 -0600 Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: Well, if you can't back it up to redo it, and you can't take it down to redo it either, you're stuck with bootdisks. That isn't the end of the world. As I said, I did it for a year or more. Just make sure you have 2 or mo

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Watson
See below... ABrady wrote: > > > > and someone wanted the partition layout of hda... > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2220 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 256 2

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread ABrady
> and someone wanted the partition layout of hda... > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2220 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 256 2056288+ 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda2 257

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Watson
Here's the lilo & grub config files. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) #

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread ABrady
- Original Message - From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Red Hat Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux > On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 17:00, Mike Watson wrote: > > I have a home LAN se

Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux

2001-12-29 Thread mike
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 17:00, Mike Watson wrote: > I have a home LAN setup using RH7.2 as my core machine for mail, webserver, > caching DNS serving three other PCs (Wife's, my Win98 box and a laptop.) All well > and good. > > Since I've been on vacation the last two weeks, I've done some experime