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RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:39:49 -0400
Be careful when installing it might wipe out your Linux swap partition, in
worst scenario your entire Linux partition. Do not use Disk 1 to install...
it will certianly wipe out every partition without even telling you.
Instead use Disk 4 (I think it is named tools or something like that) and
use manual installation. Long time ago, I found a document on Internet
which helped get around this mess. I do not know why RedHat starting from
RedHat 5.2 labeled their swap partition as x86. Although I raised this
question on Red Hat Beta Team mailing list once but never got a response.
The trick was to delete the Linux swap partition, install Solaris,
then later manually create Linux swap partition.
The upcoming RH 7.2 release will have a loader Grub, which is excellent to
install multiple OS on one PC.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
>
>
> > I do not mean you should... But you can download Solaris8 (x86 or
> > Sparc) free of cost from www.sun.com. It can coexists with
> Linux and
> > Windows... though a bit tricky with linux, because RedHat Linux
> > starting from 5.2 version label swap partition as x86 and so does
> > Solaris, from long time. Which causes swap partition over written...
>
> Hadn't thought of that. I'm downloading it now and might
> mess around with it a bit later...
>
> Harold
>