[ltp] dual-boot with RedHat-8.0

[Richard Griffith]

Greg Matheson wrote:
> What are my chances of being able to use the RedHat-8.0 installation
> disks to resize my Windows partitions and come up with
> a dual-boot Linux-Windows 98 Thinkpad A21e, without the need to
> investigate other partitioning software?

I'd rate the chances as excellent, assuming RedHat and Windows 98 (XP would be 
a different story.)

...
> Any advice for someone who is good at reading man pages and
> following instructions, but who doesn't know much about what they
> are doing?

Redhar has some documentation
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html

In a nutshell you use a tool called fips to split the windows partition, and 
use the now free space to install linux. During the process you can choose to 
leave the windows and recovery partitions untouched.

Hope this helps,
-Richard