dual boot winxp and redhat 9 on laptop. help

[big_k105]

ok i know that was a long subject but has anyone heard of someone dual booting xp and rh9 on a Toshiba satellite 1405-S151 and know what kind of problems they have come up with. andhow do i go about partitioning my drive to put redhat on it. can some one help or point my in the right direction. thanks alot.

[yowwww]

the first thing to do is to check the hardware compatibility list on red hat's site to see how compatible your laptop is.

laptops are notorious for being a pita, it could be a long road ahead

[andutt]

Just begin to install Redhat... the installation process will help you to partition you hardrive and the bootloader will help you to choose which os to boot from when you start you computer. You XP partition will be a outgreyed partition when its time to partition you hardrive, make sure that you dont touch that partition...

Regards

[big_k105]

Well i got it to dual boot jst fine the only problem is that the sound card wont work. the network works great. so if you could help me find out whats wrong with the sound card drivers and where to find some. one more how do i get linux to see my data drive its a fat32 format i thought i heard that redhat 9 could see and used fat32 if this is wrong let me know also thanks for the help.

[yowwww]

look under helpful tips on my guide for the fat32 thing, its easy

sound - no sound works at all?

[big_k105]

"load sound modules in /etc/modules.conf" is the error when i test my sound card. like i go detect soundcard and then test it and thats what it gives me how do i g about loading the sound modules

[yowwww]

do this in your terminal and post the output here:

/sbin/lspci

and also do this:

/sbin/lsmod

and post it in here as well

[big_k105]

/sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82551QM Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82)

/sbin/lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
soundcore               6404   0  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   13004   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      8680   4
yenta_socket           13472   2
pcmcia_core            57216   0  [ds yenta_socket]
e100                   60644   1
ipt_REJECT              3928   6  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15096   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12208   0
scsi_mod              107160   3  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 35708   0
cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
mousedev                5492   1
hid                    22148   0  (unused)
input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci               21480   0  (unused)
usbcore                78784   1  [hid usb-ohci]
ext3                   70784   2
jbd                    51892   2  [ext3]

[big_k105]

well i got it working all i had to do was upgrade the kernal thanks for your help everyone and that mounting works great thanks for that too

[yowwww]

good stuff, glad to hear it
not that many laptops work well with linux, you are quite lucky