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    I have win 2000 on mr PC. I have partitioned my H.Disk. I would like to know if I can install Red Hat Linux 7.0 or 7.1 on the same machine (same H.disk).

    Some people told me that this won't work with win 2000, i.e I won't get the LILO boot.

    thanks in advance

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    Well, I am doind exactly this right now. (Actually waiting for disc 2 to finish downloading). I wasn't aware that there WAS a disc 2 until Red Hat's setup asked for it <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

    So I had to reboot in the middle of actually copying the files over. This was after the disk was partitioned and the setup had already begun. When I rebooted, I expected to get a Linux prompt telling me that I needed to finish Setup or something, but instead, I got the Win2000 boot-up. If I didn't know better, I would never have known I had installed Linux (or almost installed it anyway.) As soon as I finish downloading the second disk, I'll let you know if it worked. Worst case scenario, I figure that I might have to manually add an entry in the boot.ini for Linux.
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    very very ez, and yes red hat an dual boot with any other os, I do all the time, currently I have red hat 7.1 and win2k on the same disk.

    Now before you do anything, backup your windows partition.

    Now aftert hat, put the cd in reboot have your machine boot from the cd hit enter, and this will take you to the graphical install.

    Its very basic and ez. Jusr follow the instructions and asnwer what rh wants. (use RH 7.1) now when you get to the format/partition hard drive, you will need 2 partitions for linux. One is the swap other is linux native.

    you might have it setup like this:

    Win2k
    Linux Swap
    Linux Native

    So wheny ou make you partition amke your swap first. Make your swap 300MB this a good size for 96MB ram and up. If you have 64 or 32 mb ram make a 150MB swap.

    Now you make your linux native partition this will be where the linux file system goes, all the files everything. So make this the size you want. 1 gb 2 gb 3gb etc..
    Remember to set the mount point for linux native, it will be /

    Rh wont do anything untill Linux Native as a mounting point of /

    Note: you might want to amke a boot disk when it asks.

    Now after you have the partitionssetup useing there default partition software. (If you want use fdisk but this is a little harder not recommended for new users)

    Now when it asks about installing LILO you want to install lilo unto the MBR.

    Now have RH install and sit back. Full install with 2 cds will take up 1.2 gb I think around there. So if you did selected to install Everything you will be using both Install cds.

    Will if somthing goes wrong then you ca always boot form the floppy, or the cd and redo it. It takes some time to learn it, but once you know how to setup the partitions its very ez.
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    Hi Daemon, i'm also planning to install corel linux onto one hdd and want to know what does this mean "Rh wont do anything untill Linux Native as a mounting point of /" ?
    I currently have both win98 and win2k pro installed (10,10,10 hdd partition) will the LILO take over the DOS' boot-up system selection (which gives you the option of which os to load)?

    thanks in advance
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    ok Linux native is the linux partition like c: fat32\

    RH will ask to you to add a mount point to your linux native partition.

    the top root is / that is why it called root.

    Now for linux to install you need a root directory /

    there is also a directoey called /root this is for your root user. the root user is the administrator account.

    When you install RH it will have help to guid you.
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    Now what you do is, you will need to save some room on your hard drive for linux. LILO installs on your MBR if you want which you should do. So no linux will not miss up your dos partitions. If somthing goes wrong and you dont want LILO just bootup with a dos disk with fdisk on it and type fdisk /mbr

    this will clear up the MBR <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

    Lilo is the boot loader for linux, windows and unix.

    So LILO can boot windows, linux and unix OS'S thats why they supply the LILO boot manager.
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