[Mogul]

I wish to make my single boot XP Compaq into a Dual Boot XP/RH9 machine. I d/led the three ISOs from the Red Hat ftp site and burned them onto three CD-Rs. Now, I have set the boot order to CD-ROM, Floppy, Hard Drive, and Network, but the CD is not booting it to install Red Hat like I read that it should. What do I need to do?

[dtugg]

Does is boot off the XP CD?

If not, your drive will not support this.

dtugg

[lynch]

Look at the CDs you burned. Is it just one file on each disk, or are there several? Did you get the md5sums and check them against the iso files?
lynch

[Mogul]

There is only one file per disc, and I didn't do the md5sum thing... how would I do that? And do I need to download the ISOs again, because I deleted them from my hard drive, or is there something I can do with the ones on the CD-Rs?

[lynch]

You can copy them back to a folder on your hard drive and use your CD burning program to create a CD from an image. Should'nt have to download them again.
Go here for some very good tips on doing this.
HTH
lynch

[Mogul]

Okay, I've got that done and working, now when I tried to install Linux it was fine until it got to the place where I select my mouse. Here, it gave me an error : "Partition table on dev/hda is inconsistant...". I click ignore. The when I attempt to have Red Hat automatically partition my drive, it gives me this: "Could not allocate requested partitions as primary partitions" and then after I click OK it tells me that the root partition is not defined. I try partitioning manually through DiskDruid, but that doesnt work either. I have attached a (bad) screenshot i took with my digital camera of the DiskDruid window, but not of the error. Could I get some help on this please, or at least a place where I can download a partition manager for XP with decent GUI?