so close..yet so very far...

["Luke" <god tyler net>]

| With respect to the best way to organise your system, you say you are
| dual-booting with Win2000Pro, but you don't actually mention a
partition
| for it.(Apart from the NTFS data partition)
| Is it currently on the system at all?

Sorry for the confusion.  I don't have Win2k (or any other OS  besides
RH) installed on the system.  Just when I thought I had everything
figured out - my swap drive the right size, some empty space to install
another OS on so I could connect to the internet, I put my win2k disk in
the cd rom, rebooted....and it never booted to the CD.  Just goes right
to the Grub boot loader thingy, telling me to select my OS (between RH
and DOS - which is odd since DOS isn't installed)  I can't run the CD
from RH (from any method I am aware of anyways), and for some idiotic
reason on my part, I never installed DOS from the linux CD.

So now I can't get another OS to install.

*Sigh* - I get more and more frustrated by the moment...but also more
determined to plow through this and somehow come out on top.  Luckily
the guy who gave me the CD's will be at work today, so I hope he is
ready to answer questions!

Mr. McClure - thanks for the detailed instructions, as soon as I can get
another OS installed, I will work  on the rest of them!

| I'm not a win2k expert, but since you don't need win2k to be on NTFS,
| why not scrap that partition (backup the current data onto the linux
or
| win2k partition for a while) and reformat it to FAT32?
| Linux can natively read/write to FAT32 (but NOT to NTFS) partitions,
as
| can win2k, so sharing data via a FAT32 partition shouldn't be a
problem.
| (This is your solution #2)
| Just place ALL your music/media/data onto the FAT32 partition, then
both
| OS can read it.
| Then you don't need the NTFS module :P (personally, I don't trust it.)
|
| The swap partiton is normally 2 1/2 times the size of your RAM.
|
| TD

Thanks for the tip - as soon as I can get another OS installed, I will
work on something like that ! :grin:

-Luke, who when he thinks he is so close, manages to create another
problem to work through...