Redhat = eviiill

[Jonathan]

well...I paritioned my hard drive...
Cut the current (only) one to 10GBs and
put 3.5GBs into "unused space"....

Loaded in an older (7.2) vers.
of Redhat and off I go!

Installing...I swore I had it
make a new partition, I guess not.

Then @ install I didn't add KDE;
further thoughts back to a topic
on different forums mean I probably
didn't include that 'x-window' someone told me to select

So...rebooted after install, expecting to choose between
XP and redhat...only DOS and Redhat; select DOS, says can't find drive.

Select Redhat, I get login- this shell/command line.
I can't even figure out how to open mozilla
(which I saw it list during installation of the packages!!!)

XP is gone...evility...
O yea and my so called 'HP Recovery Disk'--
Guess what? NO WORK!!

[openbox]

That's why I don't like dual boot machines

Seriously, what'd you use to re-partition your drive? What was the previous file system on the drive? Which boot manager did you use?

[Jonathan]

That's why I don't like dual boot machines

Seriously, what'd you use to re-partition your drive? What was the previous file system on the drive? Which boot manager did you use?

But unlike some of y'alls I don't got $$$ to toss around
a buy another box to put Linux on

Okay used Partition Magik to "resize" the C drive down
to 10GB (only 15GB one); left bout 3.5GB free...

Put in an older Redhat disk (7.2) from my bro's college
course and rebooted as instructed.

Went through, got to the partition part.
And-- looking back this is my mistake- I selected the "FREE" space
(thinking was parition, instead of making new one)
and after brief chat with the computer shop guy, I've reached conclusion
this is probably the "hidden" partition that the recovery CD uses....

File System? I think it was the 'N' one, not FAT32...
Boot manager-- option for grueb (something like that),
LILO, or none; selected the 'recommended' grueb one.

O and brother is getting a copy of XP Pro for me-
but in mean time I think I'm going to burn a copy of 'LINDOWS'
which is a very very "windows" looking Linux.

Even had an piece bout it on the local news
Then again only to warn people not to buy it

[openbox]

But unlike some of y'alls I don't got $$$ to toss around a buy another box to put Linux on

I have a couple of FreeBSD boxes and an OpenBSD box, all running on Pentium 133 Mhz with 1.6 Gb HDD and 64 MB RAM. They didn't cost a whole lot of $$$.

I selected the "FREE" space (thinking was parition, instead of making new one) and after brief chat with the computer shop guy, I've reached conclusion this is probably the "hidden" partition that the recovery CD uses....

Ok, but that shouldn't affect your XP bootable partion.

File System? I think it was the 'N' one, not FAT32...
Boot manager-- option for grueb (something like that), LILO, or none; selected the 'recommended' grueb one.

NTFS is a decent file system, but it's not as forgiving as FAT16/32. Does your Partition Magic software have a file system recovery option. I haven't touched the software in years so I don't know if it does or not. Did you try editing the GRUB config to see if you can add your NTFS partition?

O and brother is getting a copy of XP Pro for me-but in mean time I think I'm going to burn a copy of 'LINDOWS' which is a very very "windows" looking Linux.

Give Gentoo a shot. Everything I've heard/read, makes it sound to be an "easy" and clean OS with a decent update/package system borrowed from the BSDs.

[Jim]

Unlike Openbox, I love multiboot machines. If you're very careful and take your time, you shouldn't have a problem in the future. I've successfully had XP,ME,95 and and Redhat all on the same machine.

If you want to avoid the expense of having a seperate linux box and don't want to risk your windows install, just add another Hardrive just for linux

Also, I've heard some reports that Fedora has had some unexpected confilcts dual booting with XP. I don't know if this has been addressed yet, so use caution.

[Jim]

I have a couple of FreeBSD boxes and an OpenBSD box, all running on Pentium 133 Mhz with 1.6 Gb HDD and 64 MB RAM. They didn't cost a whole lot of $$$..

Thats fine if you don't want/need a GUI, but if you add gnome, its gonna crawl.

[Jonathan]

Update--

I've wiped the hard drive after a good hour+ crawling
through the garage, putting on old Windows 2KPro.

But then when reformatting, I wanted to parition said hard drive;
but didn't give me the option so I just went ahead.

Right now holding over on 2KPro for bout a week
til I can get a copy of XP Pro...

Also I should be getting a 120GB internal coming
pretty soon (in mail from friend), so may keep 15 for linux...

Also someone suggested trying 'live linux'-- all from CD
so I do not have to touch my hard drive

BTW if anyone knows what Audio driver I need
for a HP 533w Pavilion Desktop (designed for XP)-- tell me.

I want sound so bad so I can log onto Rogue Spear
and let all my gaming buddies I'm out of action for @least a week

[Jonathan]

never mind on needing help for the sound;
I finally got it *thanks James*

[openbox]

Also someone suggested trying 'live linux'-- all from CD so I do not have to touch my hard drive

Linux will need a swap partition, so you'll have to "touch" your hard drive somehow/somewhere. Plus, if everything is running from a CD, don't plan on making config changes, adding new software, logging "stuff", etc...

[openbox]

Thats fine if you don't want/need a GUI, but if you add gnome, its gonna crawl.

Correct, I don't need a GUI. And throwing most GUIs on one of these systems, would kill it. My point was that it doesn't take a lot of money to have more than one computer.

It's all relative.

[openbox]

Unlike Openbox, I love multiboot machines.

My biggest complaint about multiboot machines is that I don't like rebooting everytime I want/need to switch an OS. I love SSH and my KVM

[Jonathan]

My problem is, I wanted to try *nix in a
simular, yet better than, Windows formate.

Just to help get adjusted, yes?

[Buddha]

How about Knoppix?

http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix

[LVZ]

This is my favorite little-known distribution, simple setup, good hardware detection, and very good functionality.

http://blagblagblag.org/download/

http://forums.blagblagblag.org/

One caveat: when I installed the previous version .92 from a single CDROM ISO, it DID, by default, wipe out my previous hard drive installations. That was fine for me but probably not for others. I've downloaded the new version but haven't installed it yet.

[rsowen]

My biggest complaint about multiboot machines is that I don't like rebooting everytime I want/need to switch an OS.

But a nice thing about dual boot is saving files to a common drive. I need to use Windows and Linux applications, but not concurrently, so don't mind rebooting once per day.

The bad news is that the last version of Red Hat that I used (I think 9) and now Fedora (not sure if I am at a current version) can't see NTFS on XP, so now I'm using two machines: there's no advantage to dual boot for me if I cannot share the hard drive. (Flame me if this is easy -- I don't have the luxury of time these days to figure it out.)