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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