I've got a 40GB Maxtor UDMA/66 drive that I'm trying to configure with SuSE 6.3 and am not having any success. That maxtor utility is braindead and creates 1 primary partition and everything else is extended. Ranish's partition manager isn't working right either, and hopelessly confuses SuSE's install if I try and do the partitions before. If I don't partition it before hand, SuSE then thinks the drive has 1094 cylinders instead of 5194. Arrgh. Any ideas. Do I need to wait for Suse 6.4? This is what I'd like to do: 1 GB / 4 GB win98 8 GB solaris 128 MB swap 128 MB swap 8 GB /usr 2 GB /opt 8 GB /home 4 GB NT <rest> FAT 32 Any suggestions appreciated. Ben -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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I've got a 40GB Maxtor UDMA/66 drive that I'm trying to configure with SuSE 6.3 and am not having any success. That maxtor utility is braindead and creates 1 primary partition and everything else is extended. Ranish's partition manager isn't working right either, and hopelessly confuses SuSE's install if I try and do the partitions before. If I don't partition it before hand, SuSE then thinks the drive has 1094 cylinders instead of 5194. Arrgh.

Any ideas. Do I need to wait for Suse 6.4?

No, that's not your problem.

This is what I'd like to do:

1 GB / 4 GB win98 8 GB solaris 128 MB swap 128 MB swap 8 GB /usr 2 GB /opt 8 GB /home 4 GB NT <rest> FAT 32

It's not easy to manage 4 OS on one disk. I have only experience with 3 OS (NT,98,SuSE 6.3) on one disk. First I think you want to use Linux-fdisk and never another fdisk, because of heavy problems. Then you need to tell your BIOS you want LBA-Addressing for your disk (and don't change it, some OS can get trouble). And third you want to manage your OS's with LILO-Bootmanager. Every OS which use the BIOS to find his bootsector must have his boot-files under the 1024-cylinder (=> 8 GB) NT will not start. Why do you want to use two 128 MB SWAP-Partitions ? You will get a little bit more performance, when you make a partition (for example 256 MB) as the first primary partition. Then a small 10 MB /boot partition for Linux. And Then 3 GB FAT 32 for Win98 and 3 GB for Winnt and then a partition for Solaris (first 1,5 GB, you can make later more slices when you use it) Example, without guarentee: MBR (LILO and Partition table in it) 256MB primary SWAP(you can share it for all OS,which could useit) 10 MB primary /boot (Linux-Kernel) 3 GB primary ( WIN98 FAT32) REST extended (logical partitions in it) 3 GB first logical (WINNT NTFS) 1,6 GB second logical (Solaris) 2 GB root (SuSE) ..... REST (one FAT partition, which can be used for data, which every OS can read and write (don't know if Solaris can it)) Install in this sequence: Win98 WinNT Solaris SuSE and to the and /sbin/lilo with a well-styled /etc/lilo.conf could make you happy. There's a new version of LILO which supports > 1024 cylinder-booting, but I have not tested it yet. Have fun :-) and a good bootdisk --> Tom's Linuxrescuedisk -- MfG Waldemar Brodkorb Linux rulez! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/