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| Muffin Man 2002-11-28, 1:24 pm |
| Hi,
I think I'm gonna download Linux Red Hat 8.0. Now I have a final question.
My computer is running on Asus A7Pro Motherboard VIA Apollo KT133 Chipset,
AMD Athlon 1 GHz, Diamond Viper II Videocard, Soundblaster Live and a
Realtek PCI Fast ethernet adapter. Are there any know issues I should know
about?
I want to make sure that w2k will be able to start when the Linux install
will fail
I've got six partitions, the first three are for OS's. Now I want to install
it on the second partition which is 3.21 GB.
Now I don't think this will mess up my boot.ini file, and so on, but I want
to be sure that I can use my computer normally while I will learn to use
Linux.
Normally I would install the operating system on it's own partition and the
rest on a separate partition that's why the partition for OS's are only 3.21
GB. Since I don't think I can install from linux on a fat32 partition. Is
this partition to small?
Any other advice is alway's welcome....Thanks in advance, Maarten
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-11-28, 9:24 pm |
| Fri, 29 Nov 2002 05:53 am will from hence forward be known as the day Muffin
Man blabbered:
> Hi,
>
> I think I'm gonna download Linux Red Hat 8.0. Now I have a final question.
> My computer is running on Asus A7Pro Motherboard VIA Apollo KT133 Chipset,
> AMD Athlon 1 GHz, Diamond Viper II Videocard, Soundblaster Live and a
> Realtek PCI Fast ethernet adapter. Are there any know issues I should know
> about?
If you do try searching Google for some other occurances. This should work
quite well though.
> I want to make sure that w2k will be able to start when the Linux install
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A WIN2K BOOT DISK.
> I've got six partitions, the first three are for OS's. Now I want to
> install it on the second partition which is 3.21 GB.
You will learn linux thats for sure.
Just dont install too many server side applicationsm and probably stick to
only installing one of KDE or GNOME.
> Now I don't think this will mess up my boot.ini file, and so on, but I want
> to be sure that I can use my computer normally while I will learn to use
> Linux.
You should be given the option during the intall to use either LILO or GRUB
choose LILO and install it in your harddrives MBR. That should be all you
have to do as the RH setup should detect and configure your system to boot
win2k. If it doesnt then you will have to manually edit /etc/lilo.conf so
that it does.
> Normally I would install the operating system on it's own partition and the
> rest on a separate partition that's why the partition for OS's are only
> 3.21 GB. Since I don't think I can install from linux on a fat32 partition.
> Is this partition to small?
I know what you are saying here, but in esscence it will not work with Linux
because Linux does not use a drive based filesystem, Linux uses partitions
mounted as _folders_ and when something is installed it usually writes data
to several folders for example install The Gimp.
/usr -> contains docs and app
/ -> /lib contains any extra or requires libraries (posibly /usr/lib)
/etc -> system wide config files
..
..
..
So you maybe better off actually just installing all Linux related items into
the 3.2 Gb partition. If you find you have no space left then you should
consider using another partition to act as /usr as it usually is the largest.
--
remember this is the sequence of events, in no particular order
Registered Linux User 282072
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