Re: Win98/Linux Problem (solution)

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Thanks for the help, I'll have to work on this. Since I have a fully
setup winsows system that I don't want to hurt. It sounds like I have to
do this froma scratch system. I do however know how to get files from
win to Linux. You can mount your win partition from linux using: mount
-t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
That is assuming you have win on /hda1 and you have a win dir in /mnt.

Aaron

Mark Price wrote:
> 
> this solution works if you have windows pre installed but also have a
> windows cd...
> For installing red hat and windows together, I read in either the Red Hat
> 5.2 installation guide or RH Linux Unleashed that it is best to format you
> linux partition with a linux tool and your windows partition with a dos
> tool.. however, when you have a linux extended partion on your drive,
> fdisk cant work with it, but when you have a regular one, it can.. so you
> run a decoy Red Hat custom installation, in which you use disk druid
> to make two partitions.. a root partition(to satisfy disk druid) and a
> swap partition(also to satisfy disk druid).  One of them(i think I used my
> root) should be the the size of your intended windows partition.  As soon
> as the installation program creates the partitions and all that, reset the
> computer and run your windows installation program (after reformatting the
> windows partition as a C drive).
> Then install Linux
> The only problem I have encountered is that I haven't figured out how to
> access Linux from windows or vice/versa, but I am also not all that great
> with linux yet...
> Mark --
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