Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

["Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@xxxxxx>]

I disagree with this. LILO should be able to handle large hard drives. I 
generally never use a /boot partition. It was added as a hack to get by the 
large disk restriction in LILO. Windows9x wants to be in the first primary 
partition. 
I would recommend:
1. Install Windows.
2. Partition your hard drive with Partition Magic if you have it or
2a. Use SuSE's partitioner manually. 
3. Install SuSE. 
I normally set up an extended partition with both root and swap as 
logicals. I generally have a separate /home partition. That way I can 
install new releases of SuSE by blowing away the old root partition and 
retaining the pre-existing /home. 
For swap, the old rule of thumb was 3 times memory, but with large 
memories, you probably need only about 128 to 256 MB for swap. 

On 2 Sep 2002 at 14:55, zentara wrote:
> If you want to be on the safe side, make a small /dev/hda1  for /boot. (20 megs)
> That way if your laptop bios isn't upto the task of handling big harddrives,
> you can always get dual boot lilo working.

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Jerry Feldman
Enterprise Systems Group
Hewlett-Packard Company
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