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| Wayne K. Woytowich 2004-01-23, 7:03 pm |
| Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
little insight on how to do it.
Thanks in advance.
Wayne K. Woytowich
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| Tamblyne 2004-01-23, 7:03 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
Hi, Wayne:
It was pretty easy, actually. Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that. I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.
There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.
The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.
Tam
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| Tamblyne 2004-01-23, 7:03 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
Hi, Wayne:
It was pretty easy, actually. Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that. I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.
There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.
The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.
Tam
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:03 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.
Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.
When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain grub
as boot manager.
//Aho
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:03 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.
Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.
When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain grub
as boot manager.
//Aho
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| Tamblyne 2004-01-23, 7:06 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
Hi, Wayne:
It was pretty easy, actually. Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that. I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.
There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.
The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.
Tam
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:06 pm |
| Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:quote:
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.
Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.
When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain grub
as boot manager.
//Aho
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| I'm trying Microsoft Virtual PC. I can run multiple Linux "boxes" in Windows and use my favorite Windows apps to. No multi-boot complexities, no reboot inconvenience, no repartitioning. Each virtual Linux PC is just a few files, easily moved.
"Wayne K. Woytowich" <franandwayne@knology.net> wrote in message news:vni19lq1pbdifb@corp.supernews.com...
Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
little insight on how to do it.
Thanks in advance.
Wayne K. Woytowich
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| C. A. La Varre 2004-08-06, 7:51 am |
| An alternative is to run VMWare on a Linux host, then install win in the VM.
"none" <no email> wrote in message
news:10h5b4urtgt6rb9@corp.supernews.com...
I'm trying Microsoft Virtual PC. I can run multiple Linux "boxes" in Windows
and use my favorite Windows apps to. No multi-boot complexities, no reboot
inconvenience, no repartitioning. Each virtual Linux PC is just a few files,
easily moved.
"Wayne K. Woytowich" <franandwayne@knology.net> wrote in message
news:vni19lq1pbdifb@corp.supernews.com...
Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
little insight on how to do it.
Thanks in advance.
Wayne K. Woytowich
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| karthik bala guru 2004-08-11, 5:56 pm |
| U can have both redhat and win xp.
Be careful with the GRUB. There is a bug with respect to
the Hard disk geometry. The hard disk geometry as reported in the
partition table is altered during installation. The change
may cause windows boot failure.
Do a google search with these lines and it would be interesting for you too.
"sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda"
Be careful with Grub and lilo. They are very tiny things that can pull
off some of our precious days if we play carelessly.
Cheeeeeeeeers,
karthik bala guru
"C. A. La Varre" <alavarre@nospam.ids.net> wrote in message news:<LZadnT8h7plG647cRVn-rA@conversent.net>...
> An alternative is to run VMWare on a Linux host, then install win in the VM.
> "none" <no email> wrote in message
> news:10h5b4urtgt6rb9@corp.supernews.com...
> I'm trying Microsoft Virtual PC. I can run multiple Linux "boxes" in Windows
> and use my favorite Windows apps to. No multi-boot complexities, no reboot
> inconvenience, no repartitioning. Each virtual Linux PC is just a few files,
> easily moved.
> "Wayne K. Woytowich" <franandwayne@knology.net> wrote in message
> news:vni19lq1pbdifb@corp.supernews.com...
> Looking for some help and advise. Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC? If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wayne K. Woytowich
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