John Aldrich wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
> > partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot".
> >
> Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and
> system map, etc. That's a grand total of under a meg. Even using FDISK, I
> couldn't make a partition smaller than about 15-20 megs, which is MUCH more
> than I need, and I've got about 4 different kernels and system maps, etc in
> there. :-)
> John
You really don't need 100MB, if you use the Mandrake installer, you can set the
size of the boot partition with that. I would go maybe 20MB which is, as you
said, plenty. From there, go ahead and do your install of Mandrake, then do
Windows, and just use your Linux boot disk that you created on install to boot
Linux again, configure lilo.conf like so:
boot=/dev/hdaN (where N equals the partition number)
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux (or windows if you prefer)
keytable=/boot/us.klt
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdaN
append=""
read-only
other=/dev/hdaN
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
You can type whatever you want for the labels, and you'll have to give the
correct partition number for your OS's so that lilo can find them. (If you make
/boot your first partition it will be /dev/hda1 and so on; the Master boot record
is not the same as /boot, it's hidden from you so you don't count it as a
partition number)
Then save and exit, find a terminal window and type 'lilo' so that lilo sees the
changes, and reboot your computer.
Michael Holt
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