On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:08:07PM -0700, TimO wrote:
> r00t the LiNuXeRRR wrote:
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 1 254 512032+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda2 255 286 64512 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda3 * 287 289 6048 6 FAT16
> > /dev/hda4 * 290 1023 1479744 b Win95 FAT32
[...]
>
> I think your options here are limited. :-( Someone will correct me if I am
> mistaken. ;-) DOS HAS to be on the first primary partition and I think
That's not true! - You can only have one primary FAT partition per disk (from
a DOS point of view - Linux of course does not care :-)) but it doesn't need to
be a special number. IIRC at least some dos tools create their 'C:' as
/dev/hda4.
> the same is true of win95/98/NT. Therefore with one disk you'd be stuck
> with something like:
> /dev/hda1 * START STOP SIZE FAT16 for dos and windoze
> /dev/hda2 * START STOP SIZE Linux whatever
> .
> .
> /dev/hdan START STOP SIZE Linux whatever
>
[...]
> I don't really think win98 allows for booting from the secondary disk when
> it can see a (mostly) compatible primary. You may have to disable the
> primary disk in the bios everytime you want to start win98.
This is very true. But have a look at LILO's options to hide partitions and
to swap drive-order on demand!
I have Linux, DOS5, Win95 and Win-NT4 installed on the same box and they all
think they own the only C: in the system, where that are really 3 different
partitions (+ several Linux partitions - no need to hide anything for linux :)
Installation is somewhat tricky though. (because micro$soft insists on trashing
the mbr and thus deleting LILO)
73 Thorsten
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