REQ: Newbie Qustion Hard Drives, etc... 1478

:-)

I'll look forward to it.

Ah. So both drives are on the same IDE drive interface connector. Not a problem (though not optimum). It'll work. So, what I wrote still holds. If you blow away Windows on hda then install FC5, tell the FC5 installer NOT to usedev-hdb. It IS alright for FC5 to add RH9 to its bootloader config though (so you can boot from either RH9 or FC5 from hard drive instead of floppy).

Alternatively, if you decide to wipe Windows and add its space to RH9, you want to do the fdisking todev-hda (as in delete Windows ptn, create Linux ptns ondev-hda, then mount them in RH9). Personally, in your case, I'd suggest going with FC5. RH9 is getting a little old I think. There's a lot of security fixes that comes in newer stuff that you need nowadays.

Best to stick with what you know for now. Who needs added complications? :-)

If you burned it correctly as a bootable CD, you should just be able to put it in a CD-DVD drive and reboot. You might have to go into the BIOS and rearrange boot order. Tell BIOS to boot CD-DVD first (if it can) then boot from hard drive if no CD-DVD is found.

If it was burned correctly as a bootable CD-DVD, this may already be done. However, for burning (should you need to):

From a RH9 command line, do:

cdrecord -scanbus

That should tell you what device your burner is on. Then:

cdrecord dev= -eject -datapath-to-FC5i386.img

Fill in the blanks for the "dev=" bit for your box. I'm running a 2.6.x kernel, so I can use dev=-dev-hdd. If you're running an older kernel, you might have to resort to dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 or whatever, or have generic SCSI modules installed. :-P Much more complicated but it works.

Bon chance!

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