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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat 7.3 and Win XP Post 40393 by finster on Sunday 14th of September 2003 07:01:39 PM

09-14-2003

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I don't know about RH7.3 but I have done it flawlessly with RH8.0. It can be downloaded here for free.

Partiton your hard drive for XP leaving unpartioned space(whatever you want to have for RH).

e.g. 40 gig drive - run fdisk and create a 30 gig partion leaving remaining space (10 gig) free. Install XP on the 30 gig space (normal install). Then put in RH disk 1 and reboot. Follow directions and when it asks to partition select " use free space" or something to that nature. RH will be installed on the remaining 10 gig free space and auto-partioned.

** inportant. During the install you come across the section where you choose boot(Grub) and it shows other volumes(XP). You need to name the volume (windows XP) for grub. Once install is finished machine will boot to grub loader asking which OS you want.
1) XP
2) Red Hat 8

Don't forget to name the existing volume(program sees the volume but doesn't give it a name- just type in a name)...I read that makes the difference. I have had windows dual boot with win2000 and then installed redhat 8 - no problems.
e.g. (triple boot)
It will first ask the above menu, then if winxp is choosen, the windows default dual boot menu appears
1) xp
2) WIN 2000

Had to go through 2 menus upon start-up but it was configured automatically and I actually prefered it.

Else you can use partiton magic or system commander.......these programs become your boot loader...they launch the OS. Be sure to make a rescue disk if using these.

Good luck.....let me know if you need more specifics and I will do the install over on my end and give u the exact rundown.

Hope this helps.

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installgrub

installgrub(1M)                                                                                                                    installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

           Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

           Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

           The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

           The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

           The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
           devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file  is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
           /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
                /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

           Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Evolving                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

                                                                    24 May 2005                                                    installgrub(1M)