installing linux and windows

I have just loaded RedHat Linux7.0 with Windows 98 on my PC. It works fine.

I suggested RedHat Linux because it is most common and user-friendly. I bought it from FutureShop for CAD$35. (It is better to buy from store than download from Internet.)

To partition the hard drive efficiently, you may buy PowerQuest PartitionMagic 6.0. It comes with BootMagic. It will help you partition the hard drive and make it dual boot Win98 and Linux. It also shows you how to partition the hard drive for dual boot. (or, you want to install more than two OSs)

I would partition the hard drive as the following:

The first 7GB for Windows98 and the rest for Linux. Make sure that the Windows 98 partition is less than 7.8GB. Otherwise, Linux may not be bootable. (Partition Magic will tell you why)

I hope it helps you.

Just my experience. I have something pretty similar in the the setup you're talking about (10 and 10 partitions), except I'm using ME instead of 98. I had a couple of hickups, but that was just my own ignorance and/or stupidity.

I htink the 7 gig limit that eddie is talking about has to writing a LILO sector on the MBR. However, during the redhat setup, you can make a bootdisk to boot off of. You don't have to create a LILO entry, but at that point, you're going to be stuck with the bootdisk or using something like system commander to boot linux.

I downloaded the CD images for this at
redhat.in-span.net, which is a mirror site of redhat. Got one of the best feeds I found for a mirror (actually download both CDs and the power tools in one day on the T1 here at work)

Good luck to you

Mark

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