[wplug] Dual boot question

[Doug Dominick]

Thanks to everyone who replied to my original post.  Everything worked
fine on my test system with RH9.0.

Now, I am trying to install RH9.0 on my workstation and am not getting
very far.  Shortly after booting from the first CD I get the following
text.

...
Probing for mouse type: Generic 3 Button Mouse (USB)
Attempting for X server to start ... Log located in /tmp/x.log
1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":1.0"
     after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
Install exited abnormally
Sending termination signals ... Done
...

Any ideas on what would be causing this?  I'll include my system info
below in case it may be helpful.

Thanks,
Doug

System
Dell 530 Workstation
Intel 860 chipset
Dual Xeon 2.2 GHz
2GB RDRAM
73GB SCSI
Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160m LVD SCSI controller
Fire GL2 graphics





-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Vanco, Donald
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:08 PM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: RE: [wplug] Dual boot question


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Doug Dominick wrote:
> Group,
> 
>     I would like to setup my workstation to dual boot RH Linux and 
> W2000 Pro.  I am currently only running W2000 Pro.  I have a 73 GB 
> drive with 3 partitions.  The first one is 8GB for the W2000 Pro OS, 
> the second is 2GB for swap and the last partition uses the rest of the

> space for data.  I have plenty of room for Linux on the third 
> partition.  I will resize that partition to leave 10GB of unallocated 
> space.  My question here is; does Linux have to be loaded within a 
> certain range of the beginning of the hard drive, or will it load 
> properly if I follow the steps I listed above?
	As long as you use a relatively current distro that can use GRUB
as the bootloader you'll be fine.  LILO has limitation with certain
BIOSes

> My second question
> is; do I have to do anything special to take advantage of dual
> processors?  I appreciate any help you can offer.          
	Nope.  Well, other than find apps that actually use them!  The
Quake server multi-threads nicely across CPUs :)

Don
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