From: "Gregory L. Marx" <skidmarx@att.net> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:38:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20001123153512.TKFY25510.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@253.pittsburgh-06-07rs.pa.dial-access.att.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 6.1 installation question ... On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:09:38 -0500 (EST), klcroxen wrote: Kevin, Thanks for the info ... much appreciated !!! Do you know if there are updated SuSE boot floppies that would contain the updated LILO ??? I even wonder if at this point I should just say screw it and pick up another copy of SuSE ... the 7.0 release ... The absolute last thing I want to do is in any way mess up my current system ... I'm already having trouble with Windows 2000 (actually this is the primary reason I decided to retry Linux) ... The Adaptec software I was using for burning cds decided rather rudely that I no longer had a burner attached ... So I deleted the software and tried a few things ... one which was to run a REG file from Adaptec that would supposingly reset ALL cdrom drives to a default pre-ez cdrom install state ... well I did it and *boom* now Windows can't access my cdrom drives at all ... oh they are listed under Device Manager - with question marks ... no amount of uninstalling/reinstalling seems to work ... Windows 2000 keeps giving me a "Hardware error code 31" ... So even with Windows 2000 it seems the only way out is to once again completely install Windows 2000 from the ground up ... which was something that wasn't supposed to happen anymore with this latest release ... Anyway, enough ranting for one day ... Thanksgiving is supposed to be about giving thanks ... which I'm doing right now ... I'm thankful I have the option of using Warp, and installing and using Linux ... Greg PS - I tried doing a simple reply to your message but it was returned as unknown address so I'm sending it to the list instead ...
For 6.1, which has a much older version of LILO, the kernel and /boot hierarchy must be kept within 1024. However, this can be as small as 10 Meg, while everything else pertaining to Suse can be in another partition or partitions configured as you wish regardless of 1024. The currentmost Lilo doesn't have this limitation.
Small warning about OS/2's cranky fdisk & Linux --do absolutely all your partitioning work from within OS/2, rather than Linux. In particular don't split a single partition created in OS/2 into multiple Linux partitions using Linx's fdisk --Linux manipulations of the partition table frequently confuse OS/2's fdisk so much, that it decides the partition table is corrupt and becomes helpless to make any further changes on the disk, including partition deletions. Normally, this makes no difference at all for those of us who use Linux fdisk for everything anyway (and who boot OS/2 using Lilo in the mbr), but if OS/2's fdisk gets frozen, so does OS/2's bootmangler.
Otherwise, have fun.
--Kevin
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Gregory L. Marx wrote:
Hello,
The last time I installed SuSE was when version 6.1 first came out for retail sale ... That was a new motherboard, CPU, and two IDE hard drives ago ...
Since then the cds have been collecting dust ... but I want to give it another try ... My current setup is as follows:
AMD K62-400 128meg DIMM 2 Maxtor IDE DiamondMax drives 2 IDE CDROMs - 1 52x cdrom & 1 Memorex CDRW
I'm running a dual-boot setup using IBMs boot manager to select between Windows 2000 and OS/2 Warp 4 ... IDE Port 0: drive 1 ~ 4gig Win2k NTFS boot partition - C: ~ 16gig Win2k NTFS data partition - D: IDE Port 0: drive 2 ~ 4gig OS2 HPFS boot partition - E: ~ 2gig FAT16 warp/win data partition - F: ~ 8gig OS2 HPFS data partition - G: ~ 16gig Win2k NTFS data partition - (F: in Windows 2000) IDE Port 1: drive 1 ~ 52x cdrom IDE Port 1: drive 2 ~ Memorex CD-RW4224
What I want to do is use Partition Magic 5.x and shrink the 16gig NTFS partition on drive 1 for installing SuSE and shrink the 16gig partition on drive 2 to use for the swap partition for SuSE ... I figure I'll install LILO on the install partition and add it to the boot manager ... So to boot Linux I'd select SuSE 6.x from the bm which in turn would dump me into LILO where I'd do the actual loading of Linux ...
Does this sound viable ???
The only concern I have at this point is whether SuSE Linux can be booted from a partition outside the 1024 cylinder boundry ...
Any help, ideas, or comments would be very much appreciated !!!
Thanks in advance, Greg skidmarx@att.net
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