DOS/Red Hat 6.2 dual boot

[tyro]

I have a 16 GIG hard drive with a one gig DOS partition on it. I would like to dual boot with Red Hat 6.2 without losing anything from my DOS partiton.

Is there anything I have to know before I install it. I have never installed linux before and therefore am not sure what issues may arise.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much
Tyro

 

[pupu]

Don't do any automatic installation, because it is designed for clean disk - it will overwrite everything. Do custom one instead. And be careful while partitioning your drive.

 

[RiezalR]

As pupu said, do a manual partition while in the Linux installation setup. Set Linux to be installed in a new partition and mount root to that new partition. There will be the fdisk or Disk Druid partitioning tool within the Linux installation setup that will allow you to do this. This would not interfere with your current DOS partition and all should go well from there on.

 

[tyro]

Thank You

I did the custom install and everything worked out fine. However, my NIC is not being initialized for some reason. i have a cable modem and a router so I set it up to DHCP. I don't know if Linux has the driver or if I need to install it. Where would I go to check that out?

Thank you very much
tyro

 

[RiezalR]

Look under the Network Configuration (netcfg) settins. See if your NIC is detected or not. Should be eth0.If not, try

http://www.redhat.com

and see if its supported. Redhat 8.0 supports more hardware, compared to RH 6.2.