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Thanks for the replies. I am loaning this box to a
pregnant programmer friend of mine who is very recently without
employment. Raising children is more important than working in Manhattan
so she quit. She would rather have a Unix like box than Microsoft but
needs both. So I plan on giving her both. I have to complete the install
by Saturday.
I think I have the problem solved (for now).
I answered most of the comments in this one
reply.
Again, thanks for the quick response.
++While installing Linux as a dual boot, I create a boot disk,
so that Linux
++doesn't screw up my MBR and I can boot both
systems.
I was installing RH 5.0 which did not give me the opportunity
to create a boot disk. I realized that I had a RH 5.1 CD-ROM in the back
of a book. So, recovered my MBR, re-ran fdisk recreated the
partitions and reinstalled RH. I requested that it do a dual boot and also
created the boot disk. Upon rebooting it goes right into Win95 unless I
use the boot floppy. That is fine for now. I will have to
figure out how to dual boot with a menu at another time.
++I think this is the 1024 cylinder problem.
The Linux partition is with in the first 1024
++there's
something in the HOWTO/mini/LILO about booting under these
++conditions...When LILO halts after just printing "LI", it means that it
can't
++find the kernel on the disk.
I
subsequently read some of the HOWTO on LILO and EZ DRIVE and there is a problem
here but I do not yet understand how to fix it. I think that is why it can
not find the kernel. Some funky things with both Win95 and Linux looking
at the same partition table differently.
++If you are running Linux off of a DOS partition, and you
sometimes
++run DOS/Windows on that partition, then kernel file can be
moved
Linux is on a Linux native partition and it's a fresh install
of Linux and also of Win95 with Visual C and MS Office. Linux
was installed and I attempted to boot into it right away. There was no
opportunity to move the kernel.
++To avoid some of these problem, I always install
LILO in the root
++partition of Linux, not the boot sector.
I forget where I installed it, this time around. Is there a way to
check?
++I get the "LI" usually after a win95 blow
up. Just powering down and
++restarting usually does the trick. I
also got it just after installing
++LILO for the first
time.
I tried rebooting several time after installing
and it would hang up every time. I had to restore my MBR to get the box to
boot again.
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