Red Hat Upgrade
l’m using Red Hat 6 at the moment on | my vvorkstation vvith 6.1 on my file server (used by Windows PCs on a home netvvork). l’m looking to upgrade to a nevver version on the vvorkstation – this doesn’t need to be Red Hat. Do you have any suggestions about vvhich to use in a dual boot vvith Win98 and running on its ovvn HD (hdc). I’ve tried to install several, including Mandrake
7.2, but ali the Mandrake versions that I’ve tried lock up in the install.
Any distribution should install happily on a drive separate to Windows, as long as you choose a custom install method so it does not try to decide itself vvhere it should install. You vvill, hovvever; have to remember to make LILO install the kernel in the MBR of /dev/hda, as that vvill be the first boot disk on the machine, rather than /