William Chang wrote:

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?

I'd think it would be pretty easy: just create a small (primary) boot partition at the beginning of the disk (200MB, say), and put all the interesting top-level directories in one or more other partitions. For example, you might have hda1 as the boot partition for Linux, hda2 as the Windows partition, and then a big extended partition with lots of logical partitions. So hda5 (a logical partition) might contain /usr, hda6 might contain /var and /home, etc. To finish it off, suppose you mount /dev/hda5 as /aux1. Then you'd have the symbolic link ln -s /aux1/usr /usr Or, alternatively, just mount /dev/hda5 as /usr. I like the other scheme because it allows for other stuff on the auxiliary partitions. You can also give Windows a minimal primary partition and then load everything else into logical partitions. Paul Abrahams -- 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/

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, I have Linux, Solaris and Windows working with Lilo in a Toshiba TECRA8000 notebook. It has a 14GB hard disk. Following is my partition configuration: hda1 extended hda2 Win/Fat32 hda3 Solaris hda4 Linux root hda5 Linux boot hda6 Linux boot (...) Lilo is in the Master Boot Record, this is upper the first partition. So, there's no problem at all to start lilo. The first partition contains two logical patitions with the /boot and /swap for my linux. It is the first 130MB of my HD. Next one in the disk is Win partition. I suggest you don't extend Win above the 1024 cylinders. You will find no problems to run linux in the high cylinders as long as you start it in the low cylinders (below famous 1024), so keep /boot in a separate partition at the begining of your disk. Before that I was playing with NT, BEOS, and other OSs, always the same way... On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:37:50 PST, William Chang wrote:

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?

boot partition uses to be small, put at the begin.

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?

Don't try that... It can work (yes I tried) but maybe some day, after a Win defrag, your Win is no longer starting up...(yes I proof ;-) If you keep your boot partition at the begining there is no problem at all in moving your linux parttions to high disc sectors.

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?

More or less 10MB it's enough. Do you use to keep many kernel in the boot??? I mean do you keep your old kernels after compiling? Regards, Pep Serrano pep@serrano.net http://pep.serrano.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBOLGNM8XRH5QDajQrEQItGwCglbXUHM/4KlbJumuU0+F5+FIAk5AAnAxG sNVVLySAhM4QcCztjf0V8fo0 =VvI5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/