Red Hat 9

XenogearedXenogeared
edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
could anyone fill me in on what I have to do to get red hat 9 to install on a machine that has two partitions, a 5 gig and a 35 gig partition. on the 5 gig is windows already installed and on the 35 is software. I tried to get it to use the free space but Red Hat just told me it couldn't make the partitions or something like that.

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  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    well if you have a 5 gig partition and a 35 gig partition on a 40 gig harddrive, then you dont HAVE any free space. to use free space, there would have to be actual unpartitioned space on your harddrive. having said that, you need something like partitionmagic to shrink one of those partitions in order to make room for linux.

    after that, its up to you to get everything set up. have fun with your network card O_o
  • XenogearedXenogeared
    edited October 2003
    haha, the network card never seems to be a problem for me. When I loaded mandrake on the machine everything seemed to be fine. Red Hat is just confusing me a little.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    well apparently onboard = t3h g4y
  • XenogearedXenogeared
    edited October 2003
    I'll agree with you there baron, onboard is gay, mine doesn't even work! but that could be because my friend shorted the board when we installed it. but i'm using a nice 3com 10/100 card and aparently it works because i'm typing this in red hat
  • R4CK3RR4CK3R Oklahoma
    edited October 2003
    Most versions of linux have a partitionmagic like program that sets your used partitions to install and run linux. Not sure it's DiskDruid or something else. Linux can't read NTFS, and I can't remeber if the partitioning app can eather though if it's DiskDruid, it will read NTFS.

    BTW... I'm running RH9.x and it had my onboard sound drivers for my nf2 board but didn't have onboard NIC drivers.
    So I guess onboard sucks ;)
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2003
    RH9 doesn't support any of my onboard hardware, and being a linux n00b having to compile the drivers myself was a royal pain the ass!
  • XenogearedXenogeared
    edited October 2003
    haha, that sounds difficult. the hardest thing i've ever done is update graphics drivers
  • R4CK3RR4CK3R Oklahoma
    edited October 2003
    yeah
    don't forget to enable all your preferd setting before you compile the drivers like FSAA.
    Linux can be a pain when starting out, but it's a good OS (or shall I say NOS) once you understand it. I learned alot of cool shit when I was studying it for my Server+ exam. Once you understand it you will realize that this is deffently the OS of choice by most h4x0rz...
  • -Mr-Unix---hax-Mr-Unix---hax
    edited October 2003
    And unix!!! lol they are both good, I use them both...
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