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Linux & Win98 Dual Boot Guide

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Poontos

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Looking for a simple guide, not too in-depth for a semi-comp-literate person.

Skimming the ATFAQ & Google did not come up with much. Someone must have a nice little site with what I is lookin' for. 🙂

Thanks!
 
Just take a few pages out of a distro's docs - Win98/Linux is by far the easiest dual-boot, so it doesn't require any tricks beyond resizing your partitions. As I recall from a ways back when I tried RedHat 6.0, the user's guide had a very readable discussion of what partitions are and how to resize them and install Linux on a machine that previously was only Win98. It's probably online at their site somewhere.
 
EDIT: Rehat support site sucks (when you are having a bad day, have better things to do, and don`t have much time) in my opinion... at least for finding stuff. Specfically what I am looking for in this situation. A step-by-step guide.


Anyone else?

 
1. Install Win9x
2. Install Linux
3. Never boot into one OS or the other
4. Format and never worry about dualbooting again
 


<< 1. Install Win9x
2. Install Linux
3. Never boot into one OS or the other
4. Format and never worry about dualbooting again >>


hehe, Funee! 😀

Joking aside, I forgot to mention Windows 98 is already installed in this situation.


Next...
 


<<

<< 1. Install Win9x
2. Install Linux
3. Never boot into one OS or the other
4. Format and never worry about dualbooting again >>


hehe, Funee! 😀

Joking aside, I forgot to mention Windows 98 is already installed in this situation.


Next... >>



Is there free space on the hard drive or a second hard drive with free space?

If you need to make free space and cant format, try partition magic. I did it a while ago and it worked great. Most distributions out there right now (big name .com types suse, rh, mandrake, etc) will automagically setup the Windows stuff in LILO.
 


<< Redhat support site sucks in my opinion... at least for finding stuff. Specfically what I am looking for in this situation. A step-by-step guide. >>



Yeah, brutal... 1 minute and 57 seconds through a modem: Home --> Support&Docs-->User Manuals-->Configuring a Dual-Boot System gets you this.

That's about as step by step as you're going to get... you will actually have to make a few choices all by yourself. If that's too much for you, then I suggest you stick with Windows - you wouldn't like Linux anyway.

 


<< That's about as step by step as you're going to get... you will actually have to make a few choices all by yourself. If that's too much for you, then I suggest you stick with Windows - you wouldn't like Linux anyway. >>



The thing that bugs me about this is that Poontos uses FreeBSD and seems to enjoy it... 😕
 


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<< Redhat support site sucks in my opinion... at least for finding stuff. Specfically what I am looking for in this situation. A step-by-step guide. >>



Yeah, brutal... 1 minute and 57 seconds through a modem: Home --> Support&Docs-->User Manuals-->Configuring a Dual-Boot System gets you this.

That's about as step by step as you're going to get... you will actually have to make a few choices all by yourself. If that's too much for you, then I suggest you stick with Windows - you wouldn't like Linux anyway. >>


Let me clear somethings up: It is NOT for me. Just a friend that is interested. I do not run Windows 98. I have run RedHat, but do not have the time to type out each step, nor would it make sense to.

The forums are very f-ing slow right now, its been a $hitty day, this dude wants to do it all by himself. I just had to erase this message and start again cause it timed out. AARRRGH!

Sure you found it quickly on your lovely modem (BTW, there are DSL, Cable, 56K, etc. modems, so it don't mean much to me), but I did not find much very quickly, so I came here. I do not put much time and effort into searching around for someone that is bugging me to find them a nice step-by-step.

SILLY me, I figured that someone had a really nice straighforward site saved in their favourites/bookmarks, that went through the install step-by-handheld-step to help newbs.
 


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<< That's about as step by step as you're going to get... you will actually have to make a few choices all by yourself. If that's too much for you, then I suggest you stick with Windows - you wouldn't like Linux anyway. >>



The thing that bugs me about this is that Poontos uses FreeBSD and seems to enjoy it... 😕 >>


Yes, he does. He also trying to study for a Cisco lab and help his luser friend of a friend, find a hand-holding guide on the above stated situation. 😀

Sadly, this thread did not go as I was hoping. Maybe someone will come in with a nice luser guide when I check back later.
 
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