Re: REQ: Newbie Qustion Re: Hard Drives, etc...

Charles Takacs <charles_takacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Thank you very much for your reply and help :-))

:-)

I will try to follow your suggestions and see how far I get
I get back to you later on how I make out.

I'll look forward to it.

For the time being some replies to your questions

On Sun, 28 May 2006 20:41:19 GMT, "s. keeling" <keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Charles Takacs <charles_takacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On my computer now I have 2 HDs

1. 10gb HD Win98
2. 15bg HD Linux RH9

It's not set up for dual boot. I use a floppy to boot into RH9.

I have arecently downloaded and burned it on CD
VMware Virtual Machine_FC5
I would like to try this But I do not have very much free space on my
curent Linux HD. Also I don't want to loose the Curent RH9.

What I want to do is Do delete The Win98 on the 1st HD and

BTW, in the following, I'm a little confused as to how your disks are
actually installed in your computer. It would help a lot to supply us
with the output of the following commands:

fdisk -l /dev/hdN

/dev/hda1 Win98 FAT32

/dev/hdb1 * 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 82 Linux swap

Ah. So both drives are on the same IDE drive interface connector.
Not a problem (though not optimum). It'll work. So, what I wrote
still holds. If you blow away Windows on hda then install FC5, tell
the FC5 installer NOT to use /dev/hdb. It IS alright for FC5 to add
RH9 to its bootloader config though (so you can boot from either RH9
or FC5 from hard drive instead of floppy).

Alternatively, if you decide to wipe Windows and add its space to RH9,
you want to do the fdisking to /dev/hda (as in delete Windows ptn,
create Linux ptns on /dev/hda, then mount them in RH9). Personally,
in your case, I'd suggest going with FC5. RH9 is getting a little old
I think. There's a lot of security fixes that comes in newer stuff
that you need nowadays.

where "N" == a, b, c, and d. That will just list the partition table,
not touch it. If you don't have fdisk, try a "man -k fdisk" to see
what you do have (cfdisk?). Then "man cfdisk" will tell you how to
list them.

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Blowing away Windows is a good choice. I'd just use fdisk in RH9 and
blow it away from there. As root in RH9:

fdisk /dev/hda
p

That should list the partitions. Now, type "m" for the list of
commands. One of them's "remove" (r?). That'll ask you for the
partition number. Tell it "1", then "w" to write the ptn table and
exit. Windows is now gone. You can now boot with the FC install
disk, or skip down to where I describe creating ptns you can use with
RH9. I'd suggest going with FC instead of RH9, assuming FC is newer
than RH9 (sorry,
I don't use FC or RH so I don't know). Better would
be Mepis or Ubuntu.

Eventually I want to try Ubuntu. But for the time being I am more
familiar with RH So I want to try FC. and especially VMware.

Best to stick with what you know for now. Who needs added
complications? :-)

Recently I downloaded a Post "VmWare Virtual Machine_FC5
from ABW.linux. I burned it on DVD. But I am not exactly sure
How to install it.

If you burned it correctly as a bootable CD, you should just be able
to put it in a CD/DVD drive and reboot. You might have to go into the
BIOS and rearrange boot order. Tell BIOS to boot CD/DVD first (if it
can) then boot from hard drive if no CD/DVD is found.

There is an "FC5_i386.img" file and I think this
would have the corect Kernel. I think I have to burn this on a CD 1st
then extract the other files after.

If it was burned correctly as a bootable CD/DVD, this may already be
done. However, for burning (should you need to):

From a RH9 command line, do:

cdrecord -scanbus

That should tell you what device your burner is on. Then:

cdrecord dev=______ -eject -data /path/to/FC5_i386.img

Fill in the blanks for the "dev=" bit for your box. I'm running a
2.6.x kernel, so I can use dev=/dev/hdd. If you're running an older
kernel, you might have to resort to dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 or whatever, or
have generic SCSI modules installed. :-P Much more complicated but
it works.

Bon chance!


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