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Old 02-10-2004, 11:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Dual boot Linux question.

I had an old Linux for Dummies book that I purchased like 2 years ago but never read until now. It came with Redhat Linux 6.1 and so I loaded that onto one of my 3GB HDs. It boots fine but wanted to know if I have another HD on my PC with Win98 on it can I dual boot? How would I do that? I read in the book about copying an image file to floppy and then to copy that to the Win98 disk but when I try to do that in Linux with the "mcopy" command it tells me it can't find that command. Do I need to load it off the CD with RPM or something?
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Old 02-10-2004, 03:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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go to ur bios and set the boot order... there you can choose to boot from you win 98 floppy or whatever you have (cd maybe) and then istall 9 on that, then go back to your bios and everytime u start up choose which OS u want to start up in bios")
let me know if u have any questions,
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Old 02-10-2004, 08:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
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If you have a CD burner and a fast internet connection it would probably be a good idea to download the latest RH .iso (RH9).

http://linuxiso.org
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Old 02-13-2004, 02:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Theirs a couple ways to do this. I use lilo to use slackware and windows. Some people dislike it for some odd reason i don't know heh. BUt u can also use a floppy disk or cdrom and install a program on it to select where to boot from. Actually its on the slackware cd. I forgotwhat it is called but u just pop it in ur floopy while computer is booting then it asks what to boot from, such as cdrom,floppy,or hardrive (hdc , hdb, hda, etc). really nice when ur lappy dosen't have a bis option to boot from cdrom =)
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Just load your linux cd and go for a re-install, but do it as an upgrade and don't format your drive. Then when it comes to the boot-loader part it should set it up for dual boot for you.
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