Re: RH Linux 9 for Dummies

From: Nazgul (ses31266_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/10/04

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    From: P. Alejandro López-Valencia (me@privacy.net)
    Subject: Re: Help!!! Problem on installing RedHat 9 and Win2k
     
      
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    Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
    Date: 2003-09-25 10:39:47 PST
     

    Leo wrote:
    > Ideally I would like to remove RedHat 9 first, then install W2K and
    > then RedHat 9. Can anyone tell me how to remove RedHat and get a clean
    > Harddisk?

    Hmmm... This is the how-to, I wrote to keep me sane after a weekend of
    hacking. This document is released under the terms of the FDL:

    """
    Installing a Dual Windows 2000 and RedHat 9 system

    Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <dradul at yahoo dot com>

    2003

    A RedHat 9 and Win2K HOW-TO

    The following notes are the result of a weekend fighting with the nitty
    gritty details of two or three confusedly written how-tos I found on the
    net. Make sure you read this document throughly before attempting to use it,
    this is no cooking recipe!

    1. Start by installing Win2K (This applies to XP as well!!!) and when asked,
    choose to use the advanced installation options, among them there is an
    option to repartition the hard-drive. Make sure the first partition is at
    least 7Gb and install Windows there; you should go ahead and install the
    recovery console as well, it may help you survive a crash and burn someday,
    sooner that you think. You may choose NTFS as the filesystem here if you
    want. You can access that partition from Linux eventually by using the
    kernel modules available at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/. Don't think
    about the second partition just yet.

    2. Boot up with the RedHat instalation CD. When asked to partition the disk
    (/dev/hda, the first IDE disk in the system), tell it to erase previous
    Linux partitions *only* and check the option to review the choices made by
    the installer. You'll find that the fist partition in /dev/hda1 is
    recognized as a windows partition and haven't been touched. You'll find that
    there are three new partitions. In hda2 will be the booting partition, hda3
    will be the root partition and hda4 will be the swap partition (necessary,
    accept the size chose by the installer unless you know what you are doing
    and why).

    3. If you want a "transfer partition" here is how: Select your root
    partition and click on modify, substract as many blocks as you want added to
    the new partition, create the new partition (would be hda5) and choose vfat
    as its filesystem. You may want to mount it somehwere in /mnt, /mnt/windows
    perhaps.

    4. Now, you want to review the options for the loader or you will hose your
    system for good and will have to start over!!! Make sure that loader is
    *not* installed in the MBR, but rather in the first Linux partition
    (remember hda2?)!!!! Don't worry about the message about not being able to
    boot that will pop-up, we still have a way to go. Finish installing, create
    your boot floppy and restart with it.

    5. Now you are in your Linux system, right? OK, open a terminal window,
    change to the the superuser:

        su -
        type the root password

    Now you have a shell session with administrative privileges. The floppy is
    still in right? If the automounter detected the floppy, it should be mounted
    in /mnt/floppy else, you can mount it with:

        mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy

    Because the booting floppy uses a plain DOS filesystem.

    Now, type this incantation:

        dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/floppy/linboot.bin bs=512 count=1

    Don't make mistakes! dd if used improperly is more dangerous than a three
    year-old with an UZI.

    Now we are ready for the Windows part of the adventure...

    6. Remove the floppy disk and reboot into windows. Reintroduce the floppy
    and open a command window. Change directories to the root of your disk and
    copy the file linboot.bin to your hard-drive. Now hide it and protect it:

        attrib +a +s +h +r linboot.bin

    7. We need to add the option to boot linux to the windows boot-up menu:

        attrib -a -h -r boot.ini

        edit boot.ini

    Add the following line to the file in the section "operating systems", but
    don't make it the first one, yet:

        C:\LINBOOT.BIN="Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)"

    Save the file and protect it again:

        attrib +a +s +h +r boot.ini

    In order to see the "exchange partition" you created, you need to assign it
    a letter in Windows. From the start menu select "Run..." and type
    "diskmgmt.msc". You'll see a partition with a FAT filesystem, assign it a
    letter and you are done. Do not touch the other "invisible" partitions, they
    are your linux installation!

    9. Reboot your system and select Linux in the menu, watch it load.

    10. If you want to bypass the grub menu, go to /boot/grub and edit
    grub.conf. Change the default time out from 10 seconds to 0. You must be the
    superuser to edit this file.

    11. If you want to boot into Linux by default, you can change the default
    operating system in Windows. Open thye System Control Panel, choose
    Advanced, "Start and Recovery" and select Linux as your main system.

       Copyright (C) 2003 Alejandro Lopez-Valencia.

         Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
         document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
         Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
         Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
         being `A RedHat 9 and Win2K HOW-TO," and no Back-Cover Texts.
    """

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