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Help me with Red Hat 8

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Doogee:
i looked in the bios and couldnt find anything to do with setting anything to lba. im just gonna backup my shit and do this initialise thing or whatever it is. im killing everything and am gonan make a small winders partition as hda1 and the rest as linux and swap.

PS : I got an error while unmounting my linux drive at reboot, where is this saved to? cos it went past to quick to read. i really think my hard drives on the way out.

Doogee:
thanks X11, one more question

if i have a partition set up for windows but dont install windows straight away but just have linux on hda2 or whatever it would be, will i still be able to install windows on hda1 later?
Its to my knowledge that windows formats the MBR but if i reinstall the bootloader it would go without a hitch, right?

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: -=Doogee=- ]

Calum:
yes, you can install windows after linux, and this is in fact necessary, since windows needs to be periodically installed to function while linux needs nothing of the sort.
the way to do this is to install windows, then after you've got bored of rebooting six hundred times to install your drivers, you get your linux bootdisk (which you made during your linux install), and boot from it. the machine will boot from the floppy, the floppy will find linux on hda2, and you'll be able to boot linux as normal.
If you like, you could leave it like this, if you have windoids that you want to be kept out of your linux side, but ideally, i'd say you should now login as root, and run: '/sbin/lilo' which will rewrite your lilo booting info onto the hard drive's MBR, and you'll get your normal lilo thing next time you boot your computer.

Aha! i just realised this is lilo specific so can anybody answer for what to do if GRUB was being used?
ta.

(i know i said i'd stop helping people, well, you can go ahead and insult me now).

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Doogee:
okay so i make a bootdisk and when windows fucks my MBR i boot from the bootdisk and run whatever it is, ill be using grub as i have never used it and my mate had problems with lilo and red hat 8.

Calum:
you got it, as you say, i don't know what you need to run if you're using GRUB, but it's not /sbin/lilo

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