having trouble installing red hat

[watt]

so ive created a 20 gig linux partitition and burned the isos
i selected the cdrom to boot first
it seems to read the disk and then skip ahead to windows
is it impossible to have a linux windows dual boot?

 

[Foofish]

You can do dual boot with Linux's lilo boot loader. Did you burn the ISOs properly? (Make sure you are using your burning software to burn an IMAGE from the ISO, not burn the actual ISO file onto a CD). Also, did you set your BIOS to boot CD before HD?

 

[Durelen]

so ive created a 20 gig linux partitition and burned the isos
i selected the cdrom to boot first
it seems to read the disk and then skip ahead to windows
is it impossible to have a linux windows dual boot?

Extract the iso files onto their respective CD's
Make sure your start up BIOS are set to boot from your CD-ROM.
If that is set right and does not boot to install then make the Linux install boot floppy disk which is contained on the second disk of your Red Hat install CD or download it from redhat.com.
You will need to use the rawrite program to create the boot loader floppy from the image file.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawrite2

Always install Windows first (you got that already) then Linux. LILO will be configured during your set up and LILO will give you the option of what OS you want to boot up each time you start your computer.


Overview of Linux: http://www.pconline.com/~erc/linux.htm

Linux documentation project: http://www.tldp.org/

The Linux Cookbook: http://dsl.org/cookbook/

Getting started with Linux, an online lesson: http://www.linux.org/lessons/page.cgi?PageID=14

KDE Users guide: http://www.kde.org/documentation/userguide/index.html

 

[mac_philo]

Those two responses were very good. Follow those instructions carefully.

However, if you have a high speed internet connection I *strongly* encourage you to download Mandrake 9.2 or Fedora. Red Hat (the free desktop distribution) has been discontinued and replaced by Fedora.

Mandrake 9.2 is excellent for newbies who want to dual boot. (And excellent for power users, as well!) You can download either at linuxiso.org.

 

[daxmax]

Optionally you can just dl the knoppix linux distro. While not as popular as other distributions the knoppix distro runs directly of a CD so you get to play with linux before you decide to keep a space on hd for it.
knoppix.net

 

[Heathen Dawn]

I think if your hard drive has more than 1024 cylinders (they all do, these days) then you need to install LILO on the master boot record (of the primary master hard drive). AFAIK the new boot loader GRUB gets round this limitation, but I still use LILO, ’cause I know it better.

 

[pinPoint]

thats correct. RedHat is going Enterprise and no more help for it unless you get it from Fedora. the good days are gone when Redhat 6.2 was just the best to use. There is a saying if you use Fedora you will learn Fedora, if you use mandrake you will learn mandrake, if you use slackware you will learn linux. though all this flavours of linux will teach you something about linux slackware remains as the original down right linux distro. Its hard to install though but I stick to mandrake at the moment.