[NTLUG:Discuss] Adding RH 8.0 to my Windows system

[severian@pobox.com]

Howdy,
   As otherwise pointed out, FIPS is a linux program for working with 
partitions.  If your machine had Windows installed at the factory, it would 
have been set to use the whole disk for Windows.  I have used Partition 
Magic to safely shrink my Windows partitions, so I won't comment on FIPS.
   It was also mentioned that some Futitsu laptops need a special partition 
for suspends.  Lot of laptops are like that.  I have personally setup Dells 
and IBM Thinkpads that needed the special partition.  On my Thinkpad, the 
special partion must be FAT16 and sized 2 meg bigger than the RAM you 
have.  On the Dell, it was a proprietory partition that only Dell could put 
back.  I suppose I could have found a way to fix that, but I just lived 
with suspend turned off..  If you are not in a hurry, I would suggest you 
do a little research about your specific laptp.  Let us know the model and 
see if anyone here has tried that model.  RedHat is not my favorite 
distribution, but I do have it on a couple of machines.  I suggest you get 
RedHat 9, if you can.  The Bluecurve interface that RedHat uses seems more 
polished in 9 and there are a lot of security fixes.
   Once you shrink the Windows partition to leave room for Redhat, you can 
just setup RedHat.  It will see your Windows partition and install grub 
with a menu letting you choose Linux or Windows.
Good luck,
Ralph

In response to the welcome remarks of jay linux at 07:19 PM 5/24/03 +0000:
>If I want to do this does anyone have any recommendations about how to put 
>Linux on my current Windows machine safely?