I recently had my system up and running with Windows 98 SE, everything worked fine (See specs below) I tried to install Mandrake Linux to my extra HDD, but it wrote to the raid array instead. No biggie really, It'd give me the opportunity to reinstall everything with a triple boot, Win98SE, Win2KPro, and a Linux distro.
As I've done before, I fdisk and set up 2 partitions on the raid array. 50% for Win98 / 50% for Win2K. Then I formated with the "/z:32" switch. I installed Win98 first. Got it running, and plopped in the Win2K cd. It asked wether to upgrade or install clean, I chose install clean.
Now here's the problem. When it rebooted it gives the Win2K boot loader with options for Windows98 or Windows 2000 Professional Setup. I choose setup and it does some stuff for a minute, then I get a blue screen that says something about unable to find bootable disk or something (sorry I'm at work now). I think it may have something to do with the 2 drives being on the high point controller (IDE's 3 & 4). I'm not sure though. Also, I've seen something about pressing F6 when installing Win2K. When & where do you press it?
BTW, if anyone has any linux distro they recommend for this system, please advise. I've only used RedHat before, but I wanted to try something different. I specifically told Mandrake to install to the Quantum drive, but it still wrote to the IBM's. The light on the Quantum never even came up. Another High Point knick-knack maybe?
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
Enlight 7237 Mid-Tower w/300W PS
Abit KT7A-RAID
256MB Multiwave PC133 Ram
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR AGP
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Linksys LNE-TX100 NIC
Pioneer DVD-116 16x
Plextor 4/8/32A CD-RW
(2) IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB HDD
(1) Quantum Fireball lct15 30GB HDD
As I've done before, I fdisk and set up 2 partitions on the raid array. 50% for Win98 / 50% for Win2K. Then I formated with the "/z:32" switch. I installed Win98 first. Got it running, and plopped in the Win2K cd. It asked wether to upgrade or install clean, I chose install clean.
Now here's the problem. When it rebooted it gives the Win2K boot loader with options for Windows98 or Windows 2000 Professional Setup. I choose setup and it does some stuff for a minute, then I get a blue screen that says something about unable to find bootable disk or something (sorry I'm at work now). I think it may have something to do with the 2 drives being on the high point controller (IDE's 3 & 4). I'm not sure though. Also, I've seen something about pressing F6 when installing Win2K. When & where do you press it?
BTW, if anyone has any linux distro they recommend for this system, please advise. I've only used RedHat before, but I wanted to try something different. I specifically told Mandrake to install to the Quantum drive, but it still wrote to the IBM's. The light on the Quantum never even came up. Another High Point knick-knack maybe?
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
__________________
AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
Enlight 7237 Mid-Tower w/300W PS
Abit KT7A-RAID
256MB Multiwave PC133 Ram
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR AGP
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Linksys LNE-TX100 NIC
Pioneer DVD-116 16x
Plextor 4/8/32A CD-RW
(2) IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB HDD
(1) Quantum Fireball lct15 30GB HDD
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