Akintayo Holder wrote: > > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV wrote: > > > > Hiy'all, > > > > Right then. I ... deleting to save space ....tions will boot Win95. > > > > Now, for the really stupid newbie questions mentioned in the subject line. > > > > 1) Is it easier to load Win95 first, or Linux first? Or which should go on > I would advise you put Widows first. > > the first partition? I read something about anything that is going to be > > bootable had better be in the first 524MB of disk space, or else it won't > > boot. So does this mean that I have to split things up a bit (I.E. a root > > partition with Lilo and stuff on it, then Win95, then the rest of the Linux > > file systems, then the rest of my FAT16 drives)? Or am I completely missing > > the boat on this one (on which point I wouldn't be surprised)? > Not 100% sure about this, my Widows partition is only 500M so I did not > encounter any problem. older bioses have this problem, but if your bios supports large or lba mode, you should be able to boot anywhere up to 8 gig. > > > > Further to that, should I even have any swap partition? If so, how large? > ...deleting to save space... > > Thanks muchly. Apologies for the rambling. Beddie-bye time for me. :) > > > > Buddy > > -- > ..once again its on > Ice Cube > RH5.2 Personal 17728385 > http://www.bigfoot.com/~blakdogg cheers Johann -- Johann Kwiatkowski Spot The Dog Graphics P.O. Box 79, Moorooka, Qld, Australia, 4105 mobile 0418 797 419 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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