Thanks, but I don't quite understand: how do I know that "...one linux
partition (/boot) (will be) entirely reachable by the BIOS (cylinder as mapped
by the BIOS <1024), and a primary partition)....?" What I thought I would do
is simply first say f.inst. "format H:\", and then point the Linux installer
to H:\. There is lot of space, each of the logical disks is 2GB. No messing
with the partitions otherwise (no Partition Magic etc.). Will this work??!
Marek
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> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Marek Treiman wrote:
>
> >
> > I have 2 beginner questions:
> >
> > 1. I have a machine running Windows 95 with a hard disk which is divided
> > into logical disks C:\ through J:\. Is there a way I can istall Linux on
> > one of these logical disks and have a dual-boot system? I mean can I
>
> Just do it. One consideration: in order to reliably boot linux with
> lilo, one linux partition (/boot) must be entirely reachable by the BIOS
> (cylinder as mapped by the BIOS <1024), and a primary partition). It
> only needs to be big enough for linux kernel images and the lilo
> bootloader itself - a few mb is enough. Alternatively, you can use
> loadlin to boot linux _from_ windows, or grub can access a windows
> partition itself and boot a linux kernel from it.
>
> ftp://ftp.uruk.org/public/grub/
>
> Or you could boot linux from the floppy.
>
> > this way avoid repartitioning the disk, which I understand is a risky
> > procedure?
>
> Not particularly, if you pay attention to what you are doing. I must
> admit I have not seen fit to alter the partition scheme I set up 4 years
> ago. I have run "mkfs -t ext2" on a couple of vfat partitions, though.
>
> Also I have never heard of anybody breaking anything with fips, which
> could be useful to shrink off a /boot partition from the windows
> partition. OTOH, she had warts, and I have never heard of anybody using
> fips either. I would try it myself if I had any windows partitiions to
> try it on.
> >
> > 2. I have got Linux Corel distribution. I am interested in learning the
> > commands in addition to GUI. Is there a good manual/tutorial or
> > something like that available on the net?
> >
> > Thanks for helpful input!
> > Marek
> >
> Install linux. Be sure to install man, the man pages, info, and the
> info pages, and you have some excellent doco right on your home system.
> Maybe the manpages micro-howto can help.
>
> Lawson
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