Author: Aaron Turner
Email: aturner@pobox.com
Web Page: http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/
Date Submitted: Thu, May 21, 1998
Status: New Entry
Requester: irshad khan
Email: ikhan@tiac.net
Request Made: Sun, Apr 26, 1998
Releases: | all |
Platform: | intel |
Category: | Installing Issues |
Category Listing: | How do I make room for Linux with Windows 95 installed? |
I have three hard drives attached to a 486 processor. At present the primary master drive and slave drive have everything working on my system which is windows 95. The secondary master drive is blank at present. Now I can not install Linux Redhat on the blank drive on account of the expressly stated limitations on the hard drive for installation of the commercial package. It has to go on the primary master drive (or at least so does the manual for installation say). My question is this. Could I shift everything from the currently used drives to the blank drive (by simply issuing the commands copy C:\*.* F:\*.* copy D:\*.* F:\*.*) and using the blanked drives C: D: for installation of Linux. Would windows 95 be happy with the new arrangement? Kindly help as I am getting very frustrated with not being able to do certain things which Linux could help me do.
First you need to realize that the C: drive of Windows95 must always be on your boot disk. Windows95 will not function if you move it's data to a different drive. Linux also likes to have it's root partition (aka "/") installed on the first disk, though this isn't necessary. In the references section, I've placed two URL's to two different Linux How-To's that go over popular work-arounds to this common problem. Either method should work nicely. There is also a program called "fips" which you can download from the web (do a search on Yahoo! or Infoseek for locations) or find on your RedHat CDROM disk. This program allows you to resize FAT partitions to make room for Linux. As far as I know, it should *not* be used on FAT32 partitions with Win95/OSR2. DO NOT USE THE COPY COMMAND TO MOVE YOUR Win95 FILESYSTEMS! YOU WILL CREATE A HUGE MESS.
http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.html