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TEX wrote:
I have a 95 box with 3 gigs available.. However, It has diskmanagers Mask installed to allow all of it to be seen. I have heard some distributions of Linux can live on these types of setup, but Will SuSe do ok within this overlay? I know I will probably have to use loadlin
Lilo will probably work if installed in the MBR. Look on page 138 of the 5.1 manual, it explains it. Apparently later versions of linux can deal with the diskmanglers; but only as a makeshift patch. I had problems with it myself on a 2.7 gig drive. With diskmangler installed and partitions created with win95; I would get error messages saying "sectors do not end on cylinders" when I tried to use linux's fdisk. Maybe the secret is to set up the partitions with win95's fdisk, then install linux into a dos partition after changing it to type 83? I wish a partitioning expert would give the definitive answer on this. Maybe there isn't one since there are so many variables. I found it gets pretty weird with 3 or 4 ide drives with disk-mangler installed. Win95's fdisk likes to do things in it's own way, and disk-mangler likes to accomodate it... that leaves linux's fdisk out in the cold. Considering that you really don't need to use it, why take the chance? As a test, why don't you use a boot and root floppy to boot the win95 machine and start linux's fdisk. See if it likes the partitions or not. If you get error warnings, then you are probably risking it. zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e