dual boot windows 2000 and red hat 7.3

[piggays]

I'm trying to dual boot between Windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.3. Has anyone done this? I have Windows 2000 installed on my primary partition, and I want to install Linux on the second one. I formatted the second partition as FAT32 even though I know it will become either ext or swap but I don't have a program like partition magic. OBTW this is all on the same hard drive. My question is when im in the installation of Redhat and it comes to the question of how to handle the partitions, do I say have it partitioned automatically, use fdisk, or disk druid. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Markoman01027]

Hello Piggays,

Enter FDISK and remove that FAT32 partition..

Launch Redhat installation, and when it asks you about partition stuff, tell it to install to existing space. To save you trouble, create a boot disk so you can boot up Linux. Dont install one of their Boot managers.

No FDISK needed for Linux, as it will create it's own partition with it's own file system, because FDISK creates FAT16/FAT32 and Linux cannot run on a FAT16/FAT32 partition. That is why when you launch setup, I believe you use their partitioning software.