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Installing Red Hat 5.2 Linux & Windows 95/98 Install Windows software as follows: Windows 98 (WIN98).. Partition Magic (PM). Boot Magic (BM). Partition considerations: Don't use fdisk or Disk Druid because these will generate partition structures incompatible with WIN95/98 i.e., WIN95/98 will be destroyed. Instead use PM to partition. However, Red Hat will not mount logical partitions generated by PM. So generate Primary Partitions only! Red Hat Custom Install requires these partitions at a minimum: root, usr, swap. Which is contrary to the documentation. That is the doc's claim you can get by with only one partition, and that if you have 128Meg's of RAM you don't need a swap partition. All of which is incorrect! Boot Magic avoids the cylinder 1024 and above problem completely (doc's state you must have all Linux partitions below cylinder 1023). So in the doc's ignore all warnings on this issue. Further during the Red Hat install chose to place LILO in the first Linux Ext2 partition i.e., the root partition (the install refers to this as "First sector of boot partition"). DO NOT INSTALL LILO to the Master Boot Record! Using PM partition as follows: Free up at the end of the drive (1023 cylinder is not an issue): 2 Gig's above WIN98. Root: / Linux Ext2 0.3059 Gig's Primary Partition 2 Usr: /usr Linux Ext2 1.5061 Gig's Primary Partition 3 Swap: Linux Swap 0.1334 Gig's Primary Partition 4 Do a custom install of Red Hat (don't do a workstation or sever install). Don't get confused by the miss labeling of the horizontal and vertical monitor portions of the Red Hat install because they are reversed. That is where it uses xx.x Hz it's really vertical frequency (not horizontal) and xx.x KHz is really horizontal (not) vertical. The last choice in the monitor section regarding horizontal ranges is really vertical and the ranges are not all that appropriate. My monitor has a vertical input video sync of from 47 - 104 Hz which does not match any of the choices. Do the best you can and then latter custom modify the monitor config. My monitor user manual has the following standards listed: VGA480 640x480 31.47KHz 59.9Hz VESA38K 800x600 37.88KHz 60.3Hz VESA48K 1024x768 48.36KHz 60.0Hz VESA68K 1280x1024 66.68KHz 85.0Hz
All these should be addressed in the latest release.