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

["Michael Holmes" <aerospaced@xxxxxxx>]

I am beginning to think it is a hardware issue with my laptop.  Sad, it
is only  a year and a half old :-(  I had a bad hard drive, the laptop
has been sent into hp 4 times during the first year, until the warrantee
went out.  Two time the cooling fan had gone out.  I also had to drop
back into my old tecra 510 toshiba, which has never gone down!!!!  It
has run for six years on red hat and windoz 98.  Sad to say the 64 meg
aux memory card is bad now.(any body know where I can buy a cheap card
for the laptop??) My laptop seems to crash anytime that the pcmcia card
is plugged in,  I am not sure if it is the laptop or the D-link 802.11g
card.

mike

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dustin Decker
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:56 AM
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Making Windoz XP play nice with linux 9.0

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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