Install query (Redhat 6)

[Daedalus]

Ok I'm about to install RedHat 6 onto my system for a dual boot setup and want to make sure I don't lose nething during the process, so please bare with me.
I have a 3Gb hdd which I think is hda and only 1 partition (hda1).
I have a 28Gb hdd that seems to register as hdb1 for the 2Gb partition (i want linux on this partition) and 26Gb of games and download on hdb5 (why does it do hdb5? theres no 2,3,4 it just skips straight to 5??) which I don't want to lose and can't backup.
I tested and mounted these devices in VMWare under Win2k. They seemed to work fine and just as I expected (except that my 28Gb partition 2 was on /dev/hdb5).
Last time I tried to install linux (RedHat 5.2) onto the 2Gb, Windows could no longer see the 2Gb (thats fine) but couldn't see the 26Gb! I panicked and I have no idea how I got back the 26Gb (maybe fdisk or something to restore partition tables - had Win98 back then).

But I would like to know how I can set up my harddrives to allow me to install RedHat 6 onto my 2Gb partition on my 28Gb drive, and still have Windows see the 26Gb partition without data loss.
And what would my options be for booting? Have lilo modify my Windows disk (hda) boot partition and it can still boot Windows or RedHat as I choose? (I want to default to Windows too).

Any help/suggestions apprieciated. Thanks  

[voidmain]

Why Red Hat 6 when Red Hat 8 is out, is your machine old and low on resources?  Why only 2GB for Red Hat? If you have a copy of Partition Magic you can delete the 2GB partition, move the 26GB partition to the front of the drive and shrink it down a few GB so you have more room for Red Hat. Also, what version of Winblows are you running?

And of course you are playing with fire if you can't back your stuff up and you are unsure of what you are doing.

[Daedalus]

Lol I got it installed  
Partition Magic rocks...Disk Druid is what I must of used last time and it hid the partitions from windows (as the docs for PMagic say). But I got it all workin fine...cept my Ps2 port died and I only got a usb mouse.
And why RedHat6? Crap swap meet = RedHat 6 and OpenLinux2.2 was all they had  
Dialup = I'm NOT downloading isoz, though I'm gonna get Debian installed over net  
And I'm not gonna bother about resizing. I figure I'm not gonna install much over net install of Debian and I'll mostly be using Wine or small programs I think.

[Daedalus]

Hey cool I live in Victoria. Cranbourne to be exact and Narre aint far from me (bout 10-15 mins).
If you use MSN, it's [email protected]
ICQ is 114482322.
We can discuss further there as I'd love to join a linux group   :cool:

[Daedalus]

How much better _could_ winblows be if it was open source? all m$uck programs moved to open source? Security updates and bug fixed would poor in in the hundreds of thousands and windows _could_ be rendered almost bug-free  
Hmmm, a future with microsoft changed to opensourcesoft and some ppl who know what they're doing (ie, none of m$ and all of the linux group (ok so thats a few million   )) could put together a good OS i say. But hey, thats just my ramblinds  

[voidmain]

The entire operating system is written in Basic. No *real* programmer would want to touch or even look at it.

[pkd_lives]

Hey ... my first ever program was written in basic ... for the Oric 1, also I have used basic on Sinclairs (ZX81, 48K and QL) and I have used Basic on Amstrad ... in fact an amstrad cpc464 program was for my final year electronics project (and it took around 50 hours to run to completion). But then I'm not actually a programmer, so maybe my views don't count, and none of these are Visual Basic **shudder**.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
The entire operating system is written in Basic.

oh yes? how do you know? could you be the only person in the world who has seen the windows source code?

[voidmain]

Damn, I can't even joke around any more....

[Calum]

damn! neither can i!

btw void main, what do you think of my little picture to link to your site? i was going to ask you to make one but i thought i might as well whip one up myself (but by all means if you want, do one yourself and i'll change it). also, how long has your void main site been in the works for btw? i notice the 'about the guestbook' page is dated 29 January, 2000!

[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Master of Reality]

if it was in basic then they would have had to port the freebsd "ping", "netstat" and "ftp" programs over to BASIC.... its probably Visual Basic.

[pkd_lives]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Damn, I can't even joke around any more....

Did you not get the humor in my statement ... oh well.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
damn! neither can i!

Man some of you people are hard to figure. Guess I'm one of them.    

 

quote:
btw void main, what do you think of my little picture to link to your site? i was going to ask you to make one but i thought i might as well whip one up myself (but by all means if you want, do one yourself and i'll change it).

I have to be honest and say I didn't notice it because I had mozilla set to block your images (don't worry, I block everyones). After a quick unblock I see that it looks pretty cool. Thanks!

 

quote:
 also, how long has your void main site been in the works for btw? i notice the 'about the guestbook' page is dated 29 January, 2000!

Well that was one of the first things I ever wrote in PHP for my personal web site (and the source is not pretty, but it's available in my download section). If I recall I actually wrote it before that date but may have just updated it then and changed the date. I have since updated it slightly (so it wouldn't be quite as embarrassing offering the source) but have not changed the date. The Void's BS site is actually only about 3 weeks old, and hasn't changed much since the day I put it up.  

[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Master of Reality]

ya, i just dled another guestbook that i plan to use for "the project"

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
if it was in basic then they would have had to port the freebsd "ping", "netstat" and "ftp" programs over to BASIC.... its probably Visual Basic.

it's probably C and C++, i am certain that microsoft are not taken in by their own advertising, however it would seem likely that a lot of it would be in VB since microsoft tend to take on a lot of kids, and those starry eyed youngsters probably think learning VB is the first step to programming for microsoft.

also, i saw the humour in everybody's posts, so if one of you wasn't trying to be humorous then i'm sorry for laughing at you!