Help: Dual-Booting Win98 and RH Linux

joshdoe

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I got my system assembled last week. I partitioned the HDD into two, the primary C: was 2GB, and the rest, 27GB, was the extended partitioned. I then created two logical DOS drives, e and f, for applications. I have now decided to dual-boot with Win98 and Red Hat Linux.

I created a Linux boot disk, and started setup. I got as far as Disk Druid. According to reccomendations, I successfully added a swap partition of 128MB, and a /root of 4GB. But when I tried to add the reccomended 16MB boot partition, it told me the partition was too big.

What can I do? I thought maybe I had to shrink the Extended DOS partition, allowing Disk Druid to partition the way it wanted too. I tried running FIPS, but when I selected to resize the Extended DOS partition it reported saying that the file system is unknown(0Fh). Help will be appreciated.
 

SUOrangeman

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First, read the lin in my signature. The problem you have right now is that RedHat must have /boot within the first 8GB of your drive to boot with LILO (a natural way of doing things).

Another option you have is running Linux on top of Windows. I think there is something called WinLinux. Linux Mandrake 7.1 also includes something similar. It doesn't require repartitioning, well for the most part (I've never fully done it).

After that, go to Linux Newbie.

-SUO