Raghavendra R wrote:
I have a Intel P III processor with a 17 GB Seagate hard drive. Ths BIOS recognises this hard disk as one with 33416 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors. I want to install Win 95, Win NT and Linux on my hard drive. I ran MS-DOS fdisk program and created a primary partition of 2 GB and the entire remaining portion of the hard disk as an extended partition. I formatted the primary partition as a DOS FAT16 filesystem (C:) and also the starting portion (2 GB) of the extended partition as another DOS FAT 16 filesystem (D:). I want to install NT Workstation from 4 GB till 10 GB by creating a NTFS filesystem for that portion. Finally, i would like to install Suse Linux 6.3 on the remaining 6.5 GB of the hard disk.
I have a few doubts on my mind. Can i install Linux on the last 6 GB of my 17 GB har disk?? I heard that Linux should be installed on the first 8 GB of the hard disk or the first 1024 cylinders of my hard disk. Is it true?? Also, should i always repartition the hard drive thro' Linux yast before installation??. Please advise.
Linux will have no problems with being on the last part of the drive. The only thing to watch out for is that the /boot directory has to be below the 1024th cylinder. This is usually accomplished by making a separate, small (about 7MB), /boot partition at the start of the drive. If I was you, I'd redo the partitioning, inserting a small /boot partition at the start, like this: /dev/hda1 7M /boot /dev/hda2 2G c: /dev/hda3 15GB <extended> /dev/hda5 2G d: /dev/hda6 6G NTFS drive /dev/hda... 6.5G Linux partitions I'm not going to go into how you should split up your Linux partitions as that is a heavily debated question. There is no need to create your Linux partitions specifically with Linux fdisk, although DOS fdisk won't be much use to you here. For partitioning, I would either recommend Linux fdisk for the whole lot (can be used through YaST), or one of the more recent versions of Partition Magic. If you install Linux before one of those MS OSes, then make sure you make a boot disk, as they have an annoying tendency to overwrite your MBR... If you have any more questions, you know where we are, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- 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/