From: "Gregory L. Marx" <skidmarx@att.net> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:01:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20001123135758.STZC25510.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@253.pittsburgh-06-07rs.pa.dial-access.att.net> Subject: SuSE 6.1 installation question ... 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