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These instructions will also work for redhat
6.X - though there may be some minor differences in the screens.
This should also work for Windows 2000
- though I haven't tested it personally.
This example assumes you are running NT4 with the NTFS file system with minimum of 3 gig free for your redhat installation.
1. Start with a installation of NT workstation or server.
2. Make sure you have the 3 NT floppies you were prompted to make while performing the Windows NT installation.
3. Make sure you have a newly created NT repair disk in case all should go wrong. To make or update your repair disk:
4. (In NT) Click Start | Run | Type "Rdisk" | Click Go
5. When the applet starts, select Create Repair Disk.
6. Now format another floppy disk for DOS (FAT). Put the floppies aside for now.
OK, Let's begin.
7. Reboot with redhat 7 CD in the drive.
8. Press enter to install in graphic mode.
9. Choose English - next
10. Choose a keyboard, us english w/ISO9995-3, disable dead keys - next
11. Choose mouse - next
12. You'll get a Welcome screen - next
13. Choose Custom Install - next
14. Set partitions - choose manual w/ Disk Druid - next
15. You will see your NT partitions listed as <not set> NTFS/HPFS - LEAVE THESE ALONE
16. Choose "add" to add your Linux partitions.
You will need a minimum of 3: /boot, /, and <swap>. You may add more
if you wish. As I choose to keep lots of stuff in the /home directory,
I have made it a separate partition. My partitions look like this for a
20 gig drive:
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17. If you're working with 3 gigs, use
50 meg or less for /boot, half the abount of RAM you have (up to 128 meg
space on the drive) for
18. You may want to make sure you've used 100% of the drive. (Indicated in the lower right) You don't want to be wasteful.
19. MAKE SURE to note the location of the /boot and / partitions. In this case /dev/hda7 for /boot and /dev/hda8 for /. - Next
20. Choose the partitions to format (Choose all boxes - there should only be the Linux partitions listed and no swap) - next
21. Check these boxes:
Create boot disk
Install lilo to /dev/hda7 (hda7 is the
/boot in my example, yours may be different) First sector of boot partition.
Partition /dev/hda8 (again, hda8 is my
/ partition in this example)
check default boot image
boot label Linux
In the box, there will be: <check>
/dev/hda8 Linux Native Linux
22. Click next
23. Set time zone - next
24. Set root password - enter the password twice
25. Create an account (The root account
should NOT be used for normal access to the system.)
<your account name> password password
(full account name) - Click add
26. Enter more accts. if you wish - next
27. Authentication - Check MD5 and Shadow - leave the rest blank - next
28. Packages - scroll to bottom, check "everything" - next
29. Choose monitor & sync rates - default settings usually work - next
30. Choose graphic card, amount of video memory, then test. Hopefully you'll see the test and click OK
31. Choose graphical logon - choose custom config - choose Gnome click next
32. Choose resolution - DON'T set the bits or resolution too high! One step lower than you'd choose in windows is good for a starter - next
33. About to install - next
34. Linux will format, then install disk 1 and ask for disk 2, then finish
35. Create boot disk on a new floppy, click next
36. Remove CD - leave floppy in
37. Reboot
38. redhat will come up.
39. Log on to redhat as root. Open a terminal window.
40. Time to grab the bootsector from your Linux boot partition (/boot). With /dev/hda7 as your /boot, the dd command is:
# dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
41. The bootsect.lnx should be 512 bytes.
42. Remove Linux boot disk - Install a DOS formatted floppy
43. Now copy the file bootsect.lnx to the floppy.
44. You can copy it with:
# mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:
45. Remove floppy
46. Log out and Reboot
47. NT should come up - log on
48. Insert DOS floppy
49. From a command prompt (or any way you want) # copy a:\bootsect.lnx c:
50. Now, go to:
Start | Programs | Windows NT Explorer
51. Navigate to C:\boot.ini
52. Right click on boot.ini, left click properties
53. Uncheck Read-only | Click OK
54. Open boot.ini in notepad
55. Add the line: c:\bootsect.lnx="redhat 7" to the OS Loader. It should look like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows
NT Workstation ...
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows
NT Workstation ...
C:\bootsect.lnx="redhat 7"
56. Save the file in Notepad
57. Close Notepad
58. Navigate back to C:\boot.ini
59. Right click on boot.ini, left click properties
60. Check Read-only | Click OK
61. Remove floppy
62. Reboot
63. At the NT Boot Loader screen you should see
Windows NT Workstation Version 4.0
Windows NT Workstation Version 4.0 [VGA
mode]
redhat 7
64. Choose redhat 7 and hit enter
65. Linux should load. You're done. If you would prefer to dual boot using Red Hat's loader, take a look at Win2k / Red Hat 7.1 Dual Boot.
NOTE: If you recompile the kernel, you will need to perform
steps 40 through 49 (after the compile and running lilo) to get the new
kernel to boot.