To install a dual system I did the following:
To save the account information (login, password, server...): open OE, click Tools| Accounts, select the account to backup, then click the Export button. This will store the account's settings in a *.iaf file at the location you specify ("C:\backup\outlook express\account" in my case). You can later import any *.iaf file by clicking the Import button. Your account password is stored in encrypted form in the *.iaf file.
In order to backup your messages first change the "store" directory of Outlook Express (OE) to a safe place: create a new folder "C:\backup\outlook express\store". Open OE and click Tools| Options| Maintenance| Store folder, then click the Change button and browse to "C:\backup\outlook express\store". Close OE, then re-open it. OE will move the store automatically at that time. To restore your mail folders, open OE and click File| Import| Messages| OE5| Message store directory, then browse to the folder containing your old messages. Do not copy the backup files into the current OE message store or the import will fail. If you saved your backup on a CD or a networked drive, you will need to copy the backup to your hard disk and verify that none of the *.dbx files are marked as "read only", or the import will fail. I then moved my address book to a safe location: create a new folder "C:\backup\outlook express\address book" From OE Open the Address Book and click "Help| About Address Book" to see the current location of the *.wab file in use. Close the Address Book. Copy the *.wab file to the new location. You can later import the backup by opening OE and clicking File| Import|Address Book. More info on http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe5/
The sound card was not recognized automatically so I also needed to download the audio driver for sis630 here
XFree86-4.1.0-3
Linux kernel 2.4.7-10.
Disk Partitioning: Choose "Disk Druid" and create the following:
| Device | Start | End | Size (MB) | Type | Mount Point | Format |
/dev/hda | ||||||
/dev/hda1 | 1 | 892 | 6997 | vfat | No | |
/dev/hda2 | 893 | 898 | 47 | ext3 | /boot | Yes |
/dev/hda3 | 899 | 1894 | 7813 | ext3 | / | Yes |
/dev/hda4 | 1895 | 2432 | 4220 | Extended | ||
/dev/hda5 | 1895 | 1910 | 125 | swap | Yes | |
/dev/hda6 | 1911 | 2171 | 2047 | vfat | /shared | Yes |
/dev/hda7 | 2172 | 2432 | 2047 | vfat | /shared2 | Yes |
Boot Leader Configuration: Use LILO boot loader. Next screen:
install it on "/dev/hda2 First sector of boot partition".
Next screen: click ok (the option "hdc=ide-scsi" is put by
default). Next screen: click ok (linux on /dev/hda3 is the default, DOS
on /dev/hda1 is the other choice).
Network configuration: enter the informations if you have access to a network (IP etc...). Then the name of your machine. Firewall configuration: High.
Language support: check English, Japanese, French and German and Spanish. Default Language: English. Time zone: enter your time zone (Asia/Tokyo).
Root password: type it.
Add user : you should do it now. User account setup: ok.
Authentification configuration: leave as it is by default.
Package group selection: select all excepte servers. Select individual packages. In the next screen, select the package "XFree86-FBDev" in the category "User Interface/X Hardware Support".
Video card configuration: The video card "SiS 630" and the Video RAM "8192" are recognized by default. Do not change it, click "OK".
After a last "OK" the installation starts.
After a while (insert CD2 when asked for) the installation is complete. "Boot Disk": insert a blank disk and press "YES", then "OK".
Monitor Configuration: change the Monitor to "Generic Laptop Display 1024x768". Click "OK".
X customization: Color Depth 16 Bit, Resolution 1024x768, Default desktop "Gnome", Default login "Text".
Click a last "OK", the computer restarts on the boot disk which you just created and let in the drive.
boot: prompt, type "linux append
vga=ask". You will then be asked to enter a video mode. Only extended textmodes are printed in the menu, even if you scan
for other, but still you can use the following modes:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ----+------------------------------------- 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
Leave the "0x" away when typing. If you have a Notebook with 1024x768 at 16bit try: 317. If everything worked out, you should see a nice penguin logo in the upper left corner which is accompanies you while booting.
Login as root and edit the /etc/lilo.conf file. You can
for instance have several modes to choose from at the begining with the
following file:
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=791
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=askmode
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=ask
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=charmode
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=windows
Here you have three linux options: a default graphical linux (observe
the vga:791 which is the decimal value of Ox317), a "ask"
mode where you will be prompted to chose a graphical mode (such as 317)
and a text mode.
Save the file and type lilo to configure the
liloloader. You should get the following message:
Added linux * Added askmode Added charmode Added windows
Check whether /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev exists. If not you
have to create it. The simplest is to use the RedHat7.2 CD-Rom2. Insert
the CD -in the drive:
# mount /mnt/cdrom # rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6-42.i386.rpm
The file /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev now exists. Change to
the directory /etc/X11 and edit the symbolic linx X (which is pointing
to ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA) to your new framebuffered server as
follows:
# cd /etc/X11 # rm -f X # ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev X
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. In the "Graphics
device section" you should have something like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS 630"
VendorName "SiS"
VideoRam 8192
EndSection
and in the "Screen section" modify the first one to get:
# The kernel framebuffer server
Driver "FBDev"
Device "SiS 630"
Monitor "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "default"
EndSubsection
EndSection
After this, type startx and... it should work!
At this step you have a working Linux. Let us now enable the dual booting.
# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1Copy bootsect.lnx onto a floppy disk. If mcopy is available, this is easy:
# mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:If mcopy is not available (e.g. a minimal install of Linux) you'll need to mount the floppy drive and then copy:
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
# cp /bootsect.lnx /mnt
# umount /mnt
Alternatively you can just copy it to the shared partition :
# cp /bootsect.lnx /sharedRestart your computer, boot in W2K as administrator and copy
bootsect.lnx to the root of the C: drive (either form the
floppy you just created or from the shared partition).
You now need to edit boot.ini. To make this file visible
from W2K, open a DOS prompt and type C:\>attrib
boot.ini -s -h -r. You can now open it by clicking on it from
W2K. Add the following line at the end:
C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"