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Can anyone show me how to install Linux Redhat 6.1 to dual boot with
Windows? If there is a Help site for this, can anyone provide me with the
URL address?

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1. Install Win9x
2. Use FIPS.EXE to shrink the Win9x partition so that Linux has some
free disk space to exist on
3. Install Linux in the free space you created in step 2.
4. Install LILO in the bootsector of one of the ext2 partitions you
created during step 3.  This is done by writing an /etc/lilo.conf file
that looks kind of like this:
boot=/dev/hda3   # the device where your Linux root partition resides
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=100
vga=ask
image=/boot/vmlinuz
   root=/dev/hda3
   label=linux
other=/dev/hda1
   label=win
   table=/dev/hda  
5. Run /sbin/lilo
6. Use fdisk to mark the Linux root partition as "active".  Then the
Win9x MBR will read that partition's bootsector and run LILO, which will
let you boot into Linux or Win9x as you desire.

If that didn't make any sense, more info is available at the following
URLs:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.html  (some parts
NT-specific)

Also check the manual that came with RH 6.1, or go to their website and
look at their online manual if you got a free RH disc.  I'm almost
positive they explain dual-booting in there somewhere.

--MG

Thanks, I get it, it's a lot easier than I though.

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If you are going to install Win9x, it makes more sense to use
the Windows fdisk to create one single primary partition of the
right size and then install Windows in it.   That way you avoid
any potential problems from running fips (actually fips2 for
FAT32).

But perhaps the suggested approach is conceptually simpler.

Quote:> 3. Install Linux in the free space you created in step 2.
> 4. Install LILO in the bootsector of one of the ext2 partitions you
> created during step 3.  This is done by writing an /etc/lilo.conf file
> that looks kind of like this:
> boot=/dev/hda3   # the device where your Linux root partition resides
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> timeout=100
> vga=ask
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>    root=/dev/hda3
>    label=linux
> other=/dev/hda1
>    label=win
>    table=/dev/hda
> 5. Run /sbin/lilo
> 6. Use fdisk to mark the Linux root partition as "active".  Then the
> Win9x MBR will read that partition's bootsector and run LILO, which will
> let you boot into Linux or Win9x as you desire.

> If that didn't make any sense, more info is available at the following
> URLs:
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.html  (some parts
> NT-specific)

> Also check the manual that came with RH 6.1, or go to their website and
> look at their online manual if you got a free RH disc.  I'm almost
> positive they explain dual-booting in there somewhere.

> --MG

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