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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Vince McHugh wrote: > 2nd Make Sure you say NO when asked if you want large > disk support during Win98 setup. This will make sure > that Win98 is installed on Fat and not Fat32. it will > also limit the Windows system partion (C:) to 2 gigs I'm not sure why you're advocating FAT over FAT32. Either can work. You can also boot from paritions above the tradional 8.4GB limit if you use the 'lba32' option in your lilo.conf. See 'man lilo.conf' for more details. The reason Windows needs to be installed first, is because MS, in their arrogance, takes over the MBR on install. The Linux install process lets you get it back. A simple lilo.conf, to boot 98/2000/Linux might look like: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message lba32 default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda7 append="hdc=ide-scsi" <== this is for an IDE CD-RW. other=/dev/hda1 optional label=windows You'll notice that there is only one Windows boot label, although I have both 98 and 2000 on this machine. Basically, this puts you into 2000's boot loader, which then asks if you'd like to boot 98 or 2000. As you can see below, I'm clearly booting this machine from above the 8.4GB limit. 289$ sudo /usr/sbin/cfdisk -Ps Partition Table for /dev/hda First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags -- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- --------- 1 Primary 0 16386299 63 16386300 Win95 FAT32 (0B) Boot (80) 2 Primary 16386300 90060389 0 73674090 Win95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None (00) 5 Logical 16386300 32772599 63 16386300 HPFS/NTFS (07) None (00) 6 Logical 32772600 48403844 63 15631245 BeOS fs (EB) None (00) 7 Logical 48403845 52307639 63 3903795 Linux (83) None (00) 8 Logical 52307640 56211434 63 3903795 Linux (83) None (00) 9 Logical 56211435 64019024 63 7807590 Linux (83) None (00) 10 Logical 64019025 71826614 63 7807590 Linux (83) None (00) 11 Logical 71826615 85497929 63 13671315 Linux (83) None (00) 12 Logical 85497930 87457859 63 1959930 Linux (83) None (00) 13 Logical 87457860 89016164 63 1558305 Linux (83) None (00) 14 Logical 89016165 90060389 63 1044225 Linux swap (82) None (00) You can only create four primary partitions. I.E. - you'll need to use an extended partition if you want to divvy up your Linux install. Since there is only one extended partition, which contains all of your logical drives, your logical drives must be contiguous. You can just stuff you whole Linux distro in a single partition, but as discussed recently on this list, having multiple partitions facilitates upgrades, migrating software, preventing spool queues or log files from eating your system, etc. You're gonna have more fun than going over Niagra Falls in a barrel. -Ron- https://www.yellowbank.com/ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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