[wplug] Dual boot question

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Type text at the install prompt, see if you can install without graphical
mode, it's usually much faster as well.

- John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Dominick" <ddominick at atrus.net>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: [wplug] Dual boot question


> 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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