David - 7:24 pm on Jan 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have only worked with win98 in a dual boot enviornment.

Does win2k treat the drives differnt then win98?

If so then I am anxiously waiting to hear how this turns out for you.

>> 1) formatted and installed 2nd HD as primary slave. win2k pro is OS on primary master, which is already partitioned into C, D, E, F. <<

If I were doing this on win98 I would not let windows do anything to this drive. Another words uninstall the drive and boot into windows, remove all windows drivers for the second drive. Then reinstall the drive , boot the redhat install from the cdrom, when it is time to partition, remove all partitions on hdb (I don''t think thats the default) this should get rid of any windows partitions and format all of hdb for linux, let grub install on the mbr hda. With this install win98 (has for me) will ignore the second drive.

I wish I had experience with win2k, you are not having a good time :)