Re: Installing Linux?

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> From: "Buchanan, James (Jim)" <jambuch@...>
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> List:
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> I am still lurking around. I got a copy of Redhat 6.0 form the there
> web page. Now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I skimed the
> documentation direcroty but may have missed the section of how to set up
> a system. I would assume that the file system is different than DOS so
> I can't copy the files in DOS format and expect linux to read them.
> True?? In dos you Fdisk and then Format. What do you do in Linux? Can
> you dual boot between DOS and Linux?
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You can set up a dual boot system, although it's more complicated than
setting up a dedicated system.

You will need a Linux boot disk. These can be made on a PC though.

You will need to set up a linux partition on your drive. This can be
tricky without destroying what's already on there. There are a couple
of programs floating around, some free, that will do that relatively
safely. Fips is one that comes to mind.

You will need access to the linux files needed to build the system.
So, you'll need a CD on your system. There are other ways to do this,
but that's the easiest.

Rather than repeat everything, take a look at
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/linux.html
This is a reasonbly good intro to setting everything up.

I have a dual boot setup on my laptop. Rather than using lilo, I always
boot Win95 and then have a menu come up which can run loadlin with the
kernel I want to use. Loadlin is a linux loader than runs from the DOS
prompt, which is sometimes useful.


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