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I am still lurking around. I got a copy of Redhat 6.0 form the there
web page. Now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I skimed the
documentation direcroty but may have missed the section of how to set up
a system. I would assume that the file system is different than DOS so
I can't copy the files in DOS format and expect linux to read them.
True?? In dos you Fdisk and then Format. What do you do in Linux? Can
you dual boot between DOS and Linux?


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James Buchanan
Lexington, Kentucky (The Blue Grass State) USA
Two Truck Climax Locomotive Operator & Builder

From: "Buchanan, James (Jim)" <jambuch@...>

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I am still lurking around. I got a copy of Redhat 6.0 form the there
web page. Now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I skimed the
documentation direcroty but may have missed the section of how to set up
a system. I would assume that the file system is different than DOS so
I can't copy the files in DOS format and expect linux to read them.
True?? In dos you Fdisk and then Format. What do you do in Linux? Can
you dual boot between DOS and Linux?

You can set up a dual boot system, although it's more complicated than
setting up a dedicated system.

You will need a Linux boot disk. These can be made on a PC though.

You will need to set up a linux partition on your drive. This can be
tricky without destroying what's already on there. There are a couple
of programs floating around, some free, that will do that relatively
safely. Fips is one that comes to mind.

You will need access to the linux files needed to build the system.
So, you'll need a CD on your system. There are other ways to do this,
but that's the easiest.

Rather than repeat everything, take a look at

This is a reasonbly good intro to setting everything up.

I have a dual boot setup on my laptop. Rather than using lilo, I always
boot Win95 and then have a menu come up which can run loadlin with the
kernel I want to use. Loadlin is a linux loader than runs from the DOS
prompt, which is sometimes useful.


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Paul Amaranth | Rochester MI, USA
Aurora Group, Inc. | Software Development
paul@... | Unix / C / Tcl-Tk

WARNING WARNING Imminent doom is approaching!!

You are going to need the older version ( RedHat 5.2 ).

RedHat 6.0 uses an new kernel that does not yet have a stable real time
patch and EMC requires this. The distribution of EMC is currently set up
specifically for RedHat 5.2

Tim
[Denver, CO]

James et al,

If you're planning on running the EMC on Linux, note that we haven't
ported to Red Hat 6.0 yet. We're still on 5.2, which has Linux kernel
2.0.36. Red Hat 6.0 packages the 2.2.something kernel, which is a major
change. The Real-time Linux people have a patch for the newer kernel,
but we haven't tried it here. Unless you want to feel the pain, I
recommended getting 5.2.

There are plenty of mirror sites that have this distribution. Try
www.sunsite.edu.

--Fred

"Buchanan, James (Jim)" wrote:

From: "Buchanan, James (Jim)" <jambuch@...>

List:

I am still lurking around. I got a copy of Redhat 6.0 form the there
web page. Now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I skimed the
documentation direcroty but may have missed the section of how to set up
a system. I would assume that the file system is different than DOS so
I can't copy the files in DOS format and expect linux to read them.
True?? In dos you Fdisk and then Format. What do you do in Linux?

First, you need to make a boot floppy, if you don't have the CDROM.
With a CDROM (if your CD drive is IDE, and your motherboard will
boot from CD) you can boot directly from it. But, if you downloaded
Linux, then you need to make a boot floppy. There is a DOS program
on a directory on the CDROM that will make a boot floppy. But, I
don't know if that is hidden somewhere in the big download file or
not. Maybe you could find the boot floppy program on the web site.
Anyway, you insert the boot floppy (or CD) and boot from it. A
primitive Linux kernel comes up, and allows you to configure and install
Linux from there. It builds partitions on your disk, installs the boot
loader program, and a bunch of other stuff (drivers, networking,
development software, X windows, etc.) as you desire. Without
the book that comes in the Red Hat boxed set, it would be REAL
hard to do this right. Even a Unix guru would have trouble without
the book.

Can
you dual boot between DOS and Linux?

Yes, absolutely. Linux can read and write DOS floppies and DOS
disk partitions. LILO can boot whatever image you want, DOS,
Windows, or Linux. You can run a DOS emulation window IN
Linux, and supposedly, the Windows in a Linux window program
is now available.

Jon