[wplug] Dual boot question
Vanco, Donald
VANCOD at PIOS.com
Thu Apr 3 13:30:30 EST 2003
At the "boot:" prompt, type "text" and hit enter.
Aside from anything else, you'll install in aboot 1/3 the time as the GUI.
You may have issues setting up X on this system. If it's not obvious, if
you have issues with X DO NOT set it to boot to GUI by default.
What video hardware is in this thing?
Don
Doug Dominick wrote:
> 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
>
>
> </html>
> 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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