porting linux on a wintel machine

[emeraldweapon18 at hotmail.com (Ming Chow)]

Oh hell yes you can do this.  I have done it before with Windows 98 and Red 
Hat Linux on the same hard drive (my hard drive back then was only 4 G).  If 
you want to have Linux and Windows 98 on the SAME hard drive, I STRONGLY 
suggest that you have at at least 2 G of hard disk space for Linux 
(actually, I strongly suggest that you have at least an 8 G hard drive).  To 
my knowledge, you can run the Red Hat 6.2 installer, and it will 
automatically partition your hard drive WITHOUT overwriting Windows stuff so 
you can test and play with Linux for the first time
:-)  Hope this helps!  Good luck!


>From: Brian Bay <babay at mediaone.net>
>To: CONE <cone at Blu.Org>, Boston Linux and Unix <discuss-digest at Blu.Org>
>Subject: porting linux on a wintel machine
>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:43:19 -0400
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I am planning to install Red Hat Linux on my Windows machine. My
>question is and I suppose I already know the answer but before I take
>the dive and do it, I need assurance that Linux and Windows 98 can
>co-exist on the same hard disk. I gather you have to partition the hard
>disk for this to happen. Eventually I plan to drop Windows as a platform
>but while I see what Linux is like want to keep windows for e-mail and
>ftping web documents.
>
>Thank you for any insight you can provide.
>
>
>                                       --Cheers,
>                                         Brian
>
>
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