Glass of Water's Journal: RH 8.0 / W2K Server in a Dell c600, part 0

today was my day to install redhat 8.0 on my computer. one of my computers.

i got started not too late, and began a massive backup of my mp3 collection. when i got back from the glasses store, the backup as done. deleted 18 GB of MP3s. it felt wierd.

now to resize the ntfs partition to make room for RH. I have a 27GB partition with 21GB free. OK, download the ntfs utils and set about following the instructions to boot into linux using the RH cD and then use the utility from the shell.

problem numero uno: in my laptop, there is an interchangable fd/cd module. i'll need to create a boot floppy. OK, no problem.

problems 2-n: boot floppys don't have enough memory, wrong kernel, won't boot, have a modified version of mount that doesn't support msdos.

6 hours later, nothing accomplished. lots of floppies lying around. computer with only one OS. headache. hungry. it would have been better just to walk over to the computer store and buy partition magic.

for the record, the best floppy distro i could get to work was the muLinux.