[lug] Dual boot... well kinda

[John Starkey]

Thanks fo the reply. It was a hardware issue. Brainless operator errors :}


"Holshouser, David" wrote:

> I may be behind the times, but the last I heard, you could only have
> up to 4 primary partitions on a single drive.
> Have they updated bois's to handle that in new motherboards?
>
> How about the 1024th cylinder limit on boot?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ljp [SMTP:lpotter at peakpeak.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:05 PM
> > To:   lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:      Re: [lug] Dual boot... well kinda
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > > I'm setting up VMware. I've got an OEM Win98 CD here and trying to set
> > > up a dual boot. The idea is that the OEM won't install under VMware so
> > > I'm installing it and trying to install linux on seperate partitions.
> > > I've never done a dual boot though.
> > >
> > > I install Windoze fine. Then when installing RH6.2 (and 7) on top of it
> > > the install dies with signal 11s and some other error. Everytime.
> > >
> > > I've got:
> > >
> > > hda1 -- Windoze
> > > hda2 -- /
> > > hda3 -- /home
> > > hda4 -- /usr
> > > hda5 -- /free
> > >
> > > Is there something I should know?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> >
> > better make a /swap or else you'll be like me and have to use a swap*File*
> > :)
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