[linux-help] Re: Making Windoz XP play nice with linux 9.0

["Dustin Decker" <dustind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,
In my experience, there is a method to the madness.  Once I find something
that works, I tend to stick to it.  In the dual-boot arena, I've found
installing Windows first makes all the difference.  I tend to stay as modern
as I can, so I boot from a Windows XP Pro cd, allow it to "own the machine"
so to speak, but only partition the first half of the drive.  I spend time
getting Windows setup just the way I like it, and shoot an image with Ghost
to a DVD for safe keeping.  (Insert rant about modular systems which keep
all data independent of the OS for backups etc. here.)

Once this is done, I boot from my Linux media.  In my case, I am still one
of those Red Hat users (Yeah, I know - friends don't let friends run redhat,
but I've been a user from the 4.x days [Thanks Jeffery] and it works fine
for me.)  I prefer Fedora Core release 1 for my laptop, and the only
significant hoop is installing nVidia drivers for my graphics.

I would suggest making use of Grub as your boot loader.  I rarely (never?)
use commercial products such as Partition Magic or the like to accomplish my
work.  I do it all myself, and find I'm a great deal happier for it.

What does all of this mean?  Well - in your shoes (and take this with the
obligatory grain of salt) I would be inclined to backup whatever data I want
to keep, and then blow the whole machine away.  Time consuming?  Yes.
Obnoxious?  You bet.  Likely to fix your problem, and teach you more along
the way?  YMMV.

Hope this helps out.

Dustin Decker 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Holmes
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:13 AM
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Making Windoz XP play nice with linux 9.0

All three disk passed the redhat disk checking utility.


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Anne McCadden
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:34 PM
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Making Windoz XP play nice with linux 9.0

Have you done MD5checksums of your iso images?  Do you suspect that one of
the iso are bad?  If the iso image isn't bad, then the OS isn't building
correctly.  You may have to do a smaller install first, reboot and then
install some more of the modules on round 2.  

If you want a different copy of RH9.0, then I can make you a new set. 
 The iso images that I have are working great.  Right now I'm using Fedora
core 1 and Suse 8.2, the debian computer crashed because the mobo

went bad.  ~Anne

Michael Holmes wrote:

>I cannot get linux and windoz to play nice on my laptop.  Linux will 
>crash windoz when it is run ( booting failures and hanging log off's.
)
>And linux will complain of check sum failures.  These faults only show 
>up when the other has been run.  If linux is run consecutively, there
is
>no problems; if windows is run consecutively, then there is no
problems.
>I cannot figure out what to do.  I want and need both.  I used
partition
>magic to set up 6 gig for linux and 30 gig for windoz.  512 meg for
>/boot and 1024 meg for /swap.   Brand new hard drive ( as linux said
too
>many failure to support the install ( check sum))
> 
>I like the new install system on red hat 9.0   The very first thing it
>does is check the disk.  ( I have been at 90 percent complete and have
a
>install crash because of a corrupted download)  I think the disk check 
>is the best improvement, especially since most installs are from 
>downloads of iso's.
> 
>Mike
>
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