On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 05:57, Tariq Rashid wrote: > 1) I have external hard disk. I installed 8.0 on the > external hard disk and created boot floppy disk. I > only created one partition on the external hard disk > (/dev/sda1). I also created GRUB loader on my internal > hard disk (C drive). Now, I can only boot Linux from > the floppy disk. I can not bring up the Window 98 OS > from the C drive. When I try to boot from the C drive, > I get GRUB READ FAILURE message. How can I load > Window 98 from the hard disk without lossing any data? Boot with GRUB rescue disk, then do a grub-install /dev/hda So that you can boot without issues. > 2) When I try to upgrade RH 8.0 to FC 1, the anaconda > intaller can not identify /dev/sda1, i.e. it can not > recognize that RH. 8.0 already present. The installer > only shows me /dev/hda1. So, I boot the RH. 8.0, log > in as root, mount /mnt/cdrom to load FC1 and ran > autorun. The FC1 anaconda installer came up and > displayed "ADD/DEL PACKAGES..' windown, it ran for > some time and showed my all the packages it found. > Since, I do not know much of the details about all the > packages, I aborted the installation. Is this the > right way to upgrade FC1 from RH. 8.0? How can I have > FC1 initial installation recognize my external hard > drive? Is it a USB one? Or a Firewire one? If Firewire, read http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/week2.shtml under the title "Fedora on machines with Firewire" -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ http://training.bytebot.net/ - OpenOffice.org Training http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/ - Fedora News Updates
