(My comments througtout your letter) "Raymond C. Maple" wrote:
I am in the process of building a new system, an would like suggestions on how to partition the hard drive for Suse 6.3 and Win 98. I would like to do something like the following: (13.6G drive)
small partition for /boot 3G fat32 partition for win98 swap partition (still limited to 32MB???, would like it MUCH larger) 1GB home partition remainder for root partition
Swap partition can be as large as you like for 2.2.x kernels. Mine is 256Mb Seems a reasonable partition scheme, but have you considered putting /home on its own partition? Then you can easily keep your configuration when you upgrade/reinstall. Also, consider putting /usr, /opt, /var on their own partitions.
I am pretty much limited to using the the win98 and Suse fdisks. I had intended to install Win98 first, but if the win98 fdisk is like the win95 fdisk, it will only let me create 1 primary partition and 1 extended partition. I would like for both the /boot and fat32 partitions to be primary (can I boot to win98 from an extended partition?). The rest can be a chopped up extended partition.
win98 can only be booted from a primary partition marked active.
Is it possible to boot the Suse installation disk, partition the drive, and then abort the install so I can do the win98 install, then come back to the Suse install? If I do this, will I need to use the win98 fdisk to change the second partition type to fat32, and will it do so without invalidating the other partitions created by the suse fdisk? Should I just forget about the boot partition and continue to boot linux from a floppy? (That's what I do now)
You can use Linux fdisk (recent version) also to create a fat32 partition -- you can do the complete partitioning with Linux fdisk. Then format your Windows partition, install Windows, then install Linux and Lilo.
I appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks, Ray
Hope this helps. cll
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