[SLE] further question about boot disk

I think you guys are right. Now, I got further question. I have a 22 GB hard drive which I want to install Win98 and Linux on it. I would like to have 10GB space for Win98. 1) How should I partition my harddrive and still be able to put Linux's boot partition before the first 8GB? 2) Is it possible to install the Linux at the first 12GB and then install Win98 afterward? But by doing this, how can I restore the Lilo after I boot into 98? ACtaully, can win98 be put in the last 10GB? 3) In my case, actually how big of a partition I need to reserve for the /boot so that it is still in the first 1024 cylinders? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I think SUSE did a great job at least it recognized my Ultra66 automatically which Mandrake and Redhat cannot do. Anyone know why? WM

From: Lenz Grimmer To: SuSE Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Question about boot disk Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:55:25 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:

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William Chang wrote:

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Yes, it is a normal floppy disk. I do forgot to mentioned one thing. The linux I installed is in like hde of my hard drive and it is prossible over 1024 cylinder. However, I am not sure if that matters since I am trying to install the Lilo on the floppy disk.

I'm afraid it does still make a difference. Your best bet would be to create a small (say 10MB) /boot partition at the start of your drive before your root partition, and have the kernel install into that (as it does by default).

AFAIK, there's no way to make LILO boot a kernel above 1024 cylinders... unless this is a new feature in the latest version of LILO... You certainly can't do it with the LILO included with SuSE though.

Some newer BIOSes seem to be able to boot a kernel above that limit. However I don't know, if LILO is capable of that, too. In this case, the error message from YaST2 is a bit misleading. This will be fixed for the next release.

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