The Official "Hi, I'm a PC." Thread

[Raiden]

Hello PC owners!

This is a thread that will allow all PC users on the forum to help fellow PC owners when it comes to trouble shooting.

So, if you have a question or need help with something PC (Windows Machine) related, give it a go and I'm sure SOMEONE here will be able to point you in the right direction.

Please, let's keep this civil! :)

Shane

[Hoplite]

i use 2 SATA hard disks(250 & 160GB), and i use 2 OS (winXP and Red Hat Enterprise 5)....one in each HDD....here is the problem:

i planned to install winXP on the 1st hard disk, and RH on the 2nd one...the first one was no problem...on the 2nd HDD, i made 2 partitions i.e. 60GB unpartitioned and 100GB NTFS....
in the step where i started creating a custom partition layout for RH, the install keeps telling me that i don't have enought space to install '/boot'...(at first, i configured /, swap & /usr)..then i cancelled and tried t 3 other partitions(/, /boot, swap)...again, it keeps telling me that i don't have enough free space...everytime i tried, after defining any 3 random partitions, the install keeps saying me that i don't have enough free space...finally, i had to reate do a logical volume partition....cmon, 60gigs should be enough for linux, shouldn't it?

another thing, can you configure "grub" loader not to overwrite the NTLDR??

[Klark]

60 should've been more than sufficient considering there are Linux OS' capable of being run solely from RAM and many are easily installed from LiveCDs, of which CDs can hold up to 700 MB of information.

Secondly, your grub loader shouldn't interfere with your NTLDR because you installed Windows on another Hard Drive. If the Linux hard drive is the one that is supposed to start first, you should be asked by your Linux installation from what location would you like to begin. This has happened automatically for me when I installed Windows 2000 and Kubuntu on two different hard drives in the same system. Dual booting is very easy with Linux.