William Chang wrote:
I think you guys are right. Now, I got further question. I have a 22 GB hard drive which I want to install Win98 and Linux on it. I would like to have 10GB space for Win98.
1) How should I partition my harddrive and still be able to put Linux's boot partition before the first 8GB?
I'd think it would be pretty easy: just create a small (primary) boot partition at the beginning of the disk (200MB, say), and put all the interesting top-level directories in one or more other partitions. For example, you might have hda1 as the boot partition for Linux, hda2 as the Windows partition, and then a big extended partition with lots of logical partitions. So hda5 (a logical partition) might contain /usr, hda6 might contain /var and /home, etc. To finish it off, suppose you mount /dev/hda5 as /aux1. Then you'd have the symbolic link ln -s /aux1/usr /usr Or, alternatively, just mount /dev/hda5 as /usr. I like the other scheme because it allows for other stuff on the auxiliary partitions. You can also give Windows a minimal primary partition and then load everything else into logical partitions. Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/