[Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98

[Robert Boulter]

Hi Steve,
  I have continued as you have suggested and mounted root on /dev/hda5.  An 
error is returned advising me to create a swap partition.  Luckily I have a 
third partition /dev/hda3 and have mounted swap here.  However it still 
comes back saying I should create a swap partition.  I have the option just 
to continue.  I may well do that. What do you think?
Rob.

>From: Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk>
>Reply-To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:11:42 +0000
>
>On Tuesday 15 July 2003 10:01, Robert Boulter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I'm new to all this.  Is there any other way of participating in a
> > mailing list without using your email address?
>
>No. The previous emails were talking about the use of a real street address
>being posted to a public list not an email address. Don't worry about it.
>
> > On the technical front are
> > you suggesting I put /swap and /. on the freed up partition.  What is /. 
>as
> > opposed to /
>
>A couple of things.
>
>/ is the root partition of your Linux filesystem.
>
>/. is shorthand for SlashDot, a popular geek website (/ slash . dot)
>	see http://slashdot.org
>
>Now.
>
>Assuming you have your (80GB?) windows partition at the beginning of your
>disk, the extra space at the end (forget about calling it D: as Windows 
>won't
>ever recognise it once you've used it for Linux) can be split up into a 
>swap
>partition and a / (root) partition. Disk druid should be able to do this.
>
>Where it might be complainig about creating a boot partition is because on
>older machines, LILO (the Linux booting program) sometimes wont work 
>properly
>if you're kernel (in / or /boot) is too far down the disk. So the idea is 
>to
>create a small /boot partition at the front of the disk (before your C:) to
>put the kernel in so that LILO can read it properly. This isn't always
>necessary though as someone else pointed out (I think), because on newer
>machines (BIOS's) the full disk is accessible to LILO.
>
>The problem is that you would have to move your C: partition down a bit to
>make room for the small (20MB) /boot partition which disk-druid probably
>can't do (at least not without destroying all your data on C:). That's why
>you would need Partition Magic. Some other distros (Mandrake anyway) CAN 
>move
>these partitions around just fine without losing data.
>
>If I were you, I would ignore the warning about the /boot partition and 
>just
>install without it but make sure you create a boot floppy just in case LILO
>can't boot your Linux partition because you can use the boot floppy 
>instead.
>Once you've booted into Linux, you might be able to install GRUB instead of
>LILO which may be able to boot the kernel directly better than LILO could.
>
>Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on...
>
>SteveH
>
>
>
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