Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:42:32 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Hibernation Area Setup & Dual Boot OS Setup
Will give this a shot David! Thanks for all your help!! Mark on 6/8/04 2:53 PM, David Chien at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:53:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Hibernation Area Setup & Dual Boot OS Setup > >> 1. HIBERNATION AREA SETUP >> Are you saying that this needs to be an actual separate hard drive partition >> With it's own drive letter (E:, etc) ?? > > > No. Simply leave it unpartitioned -- ie. unused. Create your other > partitions around this space. Partition Magic and Ranish Partition Manager > and > Linux partitioning software can all do this for you. > > If you do create a partition on this area, you can simply resize that > partition using the above to move it outside of this hibernation area. > >> Partition Information for Disk 1: 57,223.7 Megabytes >> Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect >> TotalSects >> ========================================================================= >> C: FAT32X Pri,Boot 40,656.7 0 1 >> 63 83,264,832 >> ExtendedX Pri 12,009.5 0 0 >> 83,264,895 24,595,515 >> >> Info: MBR Partition Table not in sequential order. >> >> EPBR Log 12,009.5 None -- >> 83,264,895 24,595,515 >> D:BACKUP FAT32 Log 12,009.5 83,264,895 0 83,264,958 >> 24,595,452 >> Unallocated Pri 4,557.5 None -- >> 107,860,410 9,333,765 >> Based upon the above, what should I do to create this hibernation area >> properly. Please be explicit as I'm not an expert in this kind of thing! > > Here, the C: drive is too big (40GB) and overlays the 8GB boundary. You'll > have to resize it down <8GB. Leave space after (eg. 128MB or more) for the > hibernation data. Then use the rest of the HD for the extended partition. > > I can't say 'exactly' where the hibernation partition is since I believe it > varies slightly depending on HD size and so forth, but if you leave the > 1000-1100 cylinders free (try it, can't guarentee w/o testing), then you > should > be okay. > > (Otherwise, you'll have to do what I did earlier -- wipe drive space between > 7-9GB empty - zeros - hibernate - unhibernate - examine HD with WinHex and see > where the hibernation data was written.) > >> 2. DUAL (Or Tri) BOOT OS SETUP >> >> Currently, have Win98SE installed as my OS. >> Thought I'd use Win2K (or WinXP) on another partition and Linux on another >> partition. >> Unless fellow Libretterati think it would make more sense to put Win2K (or >> WinXP) on my current partition and the Linux on another. Thus eliminating >> Win98SE altogether. >> So do I just use PartitionMagic to create another partition and then install >> OS there? Or do I need to do some other setup things as in Item 1 above >> regarding hibernation area, etc? > > Simply avoid putting a partition on the 8GB area, and you can do the above > just fine -- three primary partitions for the three OSs. Doesn't matter and > will work fine. > > Rather excessive to have both W98 and W2k on the same computer however, so > I'd just pick one or the other and not install both -- unless there's just > some > program you have that wants the other. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
