Problem installing Red Hat. Dual boot with Windows 2000

[Kristian15lp]

Hi!!! I have windows 2000 and i have red hat 8.0 with 3 cd's. I wanted to install Linux, so i boot from system disk in dos and tape e:\dosutils\autoboot.bat i installed linux and now I have a Problemm!!! i restarted my commputer and he booted in linux!! where dose windows go??? Is it still on my commputer? and if it is how can i boot in it!! thanx!

[homey]

There are a couple of possiblities that come to mind.....

1. You let linux take over the whole hard drive and remove existing partitions. :(

2. You just forgot to make an entry for windows in the boot menu. :)

If it is the first problem, you can restore windows from your ghost image which you surely have.

If it is the second problem, edit the /boot/grub/grub.confg also known as /etc/grub.conf and add a line like this......

title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[Kristian15lp]

Thanx!! But i'm a total newbie in Linux i try to edit grub.conf but it display error "Nautilus has no istalled viewer capable of displaying "boot/grub/grub.conf" " and when i insert system floppy, he boots in dos and when i tape c:\ dir then he display some files and then say cannot read from d:\ abort, retry ....... And how can i istall windows again, without losting linux??? i don't know what are ghost images!! :confused: I think i can't edit grub.conf becuse i have to install from packstages that Nautilus programm!!! and how can i look at my hard drives from linux?????? Thanx!!! OOouuu, i forgot!! I know Visual Basic well, but i want to start programming in c++, where can i get c++ for linux?????

[JohnT]

Well you have Linux bootdisk so it is no problem getting into Linux, so boot your 2K cd and when it arrives at the install/repair screen choose repair. Choose to repair the MBR. You can also choose repair console to do this and issuing the command "fix /mbr". (I think that's correct if my memory serves me. There is a list of commands available when in repair console). When you get this far let me know and I will show you how to set-up a dual-boot.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Kristian15lp
Thanx!! But i'm a total newbie in Linux i try to edit grub.conf but it display error "Nautilus has no istalled viewer capable of displaying "boot/grub/grub.conf" "

Use one of the gui text editors included with Gnome. You will need to be root to make the changes to your grub config.

[terribleRobbo]

Originally posted by Kristian15lp
I know Visual Basic well, but i want to start programming in c++, where can i get c++ for linux?????

Umm... Stick to learning the OS a tad before leaping into programming...

If you really have to, there's always gcc (if you installed it).

[sajchurchey]

Yeah, learn the OS and don't worry about getting into programming quite yet. It's best to use the command line tools that come w/ linux if ur interested in programming. It comes w/ compilers such as cpp and gcc is a good C compiler.

Go into rescue mode on the Win2k installation in question and run the FIXMBR command. Then boot into Linux run the following command:


grub-install /dev/hda


I am assuming that you're only using 1 HD w/ multiple partitions. If that's not the case say so.

After u reinstall GRUB to the MBR, you need to edit the grub.conf as you were told earlier.