how do I create dual boot??

[c-learner]

Hi all,
could someone tell me how to create a dual boot for WinME and Linux Red Hat 7.0??

[Statica]

Are essentially the same as creating dual boots for Win 9x & Linux.
Here's the "real" howto..
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html

There is of course an alternate method without using a bootloader but using loadlin ...
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/L...n95-98-ME.html

Essentially let me paraphrase for you, and this is something that the howto doesnt touch on too much, but its a failproof method to getting both OS' happy.

First install Windoze & its partition. Basically what you do is fdisk out your hard drive, if you are starting from scratch, and create a primary & subsequent extended partition for your windows. DONT partition your Linux space, leave it unpartitioned. In effect if you are using 20GB of unpartitioned hard drive, say you could commit 2GB for your C Drive, 10 for D and leave the rest unpartitioned.
Go ahead and install Windoze to those partitions formatted with FAT32 or FAT16 (both are bad eggs ;)).

Now boot up to Linux setup on redhat, your DiskDruid partitioner in RHat should see the previous partitions along with your unpartitioned space. Create the new partitions to whatever your needs are in the unpartitioned areas. Edit "C" & "D" drives, on the DiskDruid and give them mount points (dont make any other changes), say /winC and /winD. Proceed through your setup.

Now comes the points of the bootstrap or LILO. Most new BIOS & comps are more than accomodating of the 16MB kernel limit, so you shouldnt have too much probs with it. Just make sure you put in LILO to the master boot record, and edit out the label of your other OS [from DOS to whatever you like].

Voila at boot time you should see a boot menu.

A couple of considerations .. ALWAYS make yourself a bootdisk. If you have an error cosyour kernel wasnt in the 16MB limit, you might see a whole lot of 1's and 0's during boot time, simply boot using boot disk and remove lilo.

The merits of lilo vs non-lilo (using loadlin):
Here are a cpl of things you should think of if you use loadlin:
FAT drives are very flaky, you might corrupt your vmlinuz file after which you can either search for your bootdisk or you can reinstall Linux :)
You are booting to Windows and then switching to Linux, that cant be a good thing.

A cpl of things to consider with LILO:
If you decide that u've had enough of Linux, you HAVE to remove lilo from the mbr before your drive can be used properly by Windows. fdisk /mbr through Windows is a flip of the coin as to its success.

HTH... post for clarifications

[mairving]

In addition to Static's advice, it is often easier to install Linux on a separate HD. If you happen to have a small HD(3-6GB's) around, install it on there.