dual boot

[1a44]

good evening this is a newby question how do i set up to dual boot with w2k and linux on a set up running 2 40gig maxtor quiet drives stripping
finishing up this new unit as daughter kiped my other one running a cyrix200 now
athlonxp1900
epox 8k3a+
3 256 muskin 2700
radeon 8500
hercules fortissimo
antec6600/enermax430
y-tech case fans thermatakeax7 cpu
16x40 toshiba dvd
40x12x40 plextor
linskys modem
sony fppy
thanks in advance cause i would have never got the other one up and running with out your great help
semper fi sam

[freezinbutt]

Hello 1a44,

How do you want to set this system up? Are you planning on having 2K on one drive and Linux on the other or are you going to dual boot from one drive? Do you want to use the 2K bootloader or LILO/GRUB or are you going to use a third party bootloader? What distro of Linux are you thinking of running?

Sorry for all the questions, but it helps to know these things before you set it all up.

freezinbutt

[1a44]

okay dokee, this is my first encounter with linux so i am open to all sugestions, would like to run the most newby friendly form of linux, what is the best way to set it up to work all i know is that i dont like windows and there has to be somthing better , i built my first machine with just a single hdd and my daughter took it back to school when she went back from spring brake wife said i could build another one so i jumped on it and went too raid and might as well learn somthing new hope you dont mind helping a newby
sam

[freezinbutt]

No I don't mind helping at all. Always glad to help someone experience Linux.

I am not familiar with RAID as I have not run it with either Windows or Linux. I know that some RAID controllers can be a bit of a pain to set up with Linux. One thing to remember with Linux is that driver support is kinda spotty especially for the latest and greatest technologies or bells and whistles. This is because almost all hardware is designed to work with Windows. Sometimes it takes a while for the Linux community to catch up. A perfect example is the Winmodems. These have been a complete nightmare for Linux.

OK...I think you should start with either Linux Mandrake or RedHat Linux. There are probably the easiest to install and configure and both offer great hardware support right out of the box. You can download them from www.linuxiso.org. There are three disks for each distro but for a basic install all you need is the first disk. The other disks just contain extra bells and whistles. Each disk is about 650MB so if you don't have a broadband connection, it might take a while to get. Make sure you are using a good FTP program when downloading files of this size. You will then have to burn the .iso images to a CD in order to install.

Hope this helps a bit. I know it is a lot to think about but I think it is nice to know where you are going before you start the journey.

freezinbutt

[1a44]

all right will down load asap your right i have allways liked to recon my next objective has kept 75%of my skin intact
semper fi sam

[1a44]

after a couple hrs of mass confusion and a couple more of hysteria i made the choice of dumping the raid and went back to a single drive dam near fainted when it worked mandrake is a snap locked in and no real problrms except operator stupidty man i want to thank you ill play with it for a week are so then get after it in spades thank you sam KC0JDS

[freezinbutt]

Happy to help.

Welcome to the good side.

freezinbutt