Linux

I currently have windows 2000 installed on a 38 Gigabyte HD. I recently picked up a 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours' book. The book comes with a copy of redhat 5.0 (hurricane). I tried reinstalling windows with a partition of 10 GBs with a fat32 file system. That left me with roughly 28 Gigs of unallocated space. I copied the boot and supplimental disks from the Redhat cd. In the book it says I would have trouble using the 'fips' command (on the boot disk). So I downloaded Partition Magic (like the book says to). It didn't even recognize my partition. It just showed 1 Primary Partition the whole size of my HD. I tried adding a logical partition (to install linux to). 1024 MB in size with a ext2 file type. Also a 516MB swap partition. It logged off and proceeded to make the partitions. When i got back to windows PM (part magic) showed my primary (C 1.5 gigs less (36.5GB) than the size of my hd (38GB). Which makes sense cause i just made the two new ones. But which also doesn't make sense because my C: is only 10GB in My computer. PM also showed the new extended partition with the two logical partitions. So (thinking the new partitions are there) i pop in the boot disk and reboot. setup start so far so good. When i get to Diskdruid. My 10GB Partition is there but no swap or linux partitions. So i went back to windows deleted the extended partion . now i am getting delaid write failures. wtf is going on?
what did i do wrong?

You're going through alot of unnecessary hassle. Use PM to create a primay FAT partition of 10GB, install MS windows on that partition. Boot from the RedHat cdrom, during the installation you can make linux partitiions. You may find it better to get a newer release of Red Hat, like Red Hat Linux 8.0, you'll find it alot more pleasing to the eye and your brain!! RHL has some excellent documentation also.

Yeah, RedHat is a definite leader in new-user oriented Linux, and absolutely the easiest distro i have ever installed. I reccomend 9.0 at the time of this writing, though - a tonne of problems have been fixed from 8.

I picked up my version of Red Hat 9 on linuxiso.org

Hi ,

ok heres the easy way to do it , bring all your patition back using parttion magic make sure u corrected your error at win2k before continuing.
after u corrected error re-partition it using parttion magic everytime u use part mag u need to reboot in order for the new changes to take effect . now make sure when u re-parttion dont format the new parttion space then run your redhat install it should see the new space and it will put red hat there .

goodluck,

Wow, 5.0, now that brings back memories.