Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 23:06, George Baker wrote:Stephen, you don't have to have the /boot partition on the first dive.
I've just installed Win XP onto my C: drive using NTFS. My second drive isThe problem is going to be this:
partitioned into a D: drive with FAT 32 and the remaining 4 gigs has
Mandrake 7.0.
I've reinstalled Win 98 before but obviously the C: drive was then FAT 32.
Using the MDK 7.0 boot CD and choosing upgrade I have always got LILO back.
I'm a bit worried now that the C: drive is NTFS. If I use the MDK 7.0 boot
CD will I damage something? I have never used NTFS before and don't want to
mess things up.
I unfortunately don't have a MDK boot floppy disk.
Please advise.
George Baker
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Yes, lilo writes to the MBR of the FIRST drive - in your case the C:\
drive - but the boot (/boot) HAS to live on the FIRST drive. Being that
it's already formatted to NTFS, I would assume that you've used all the
available space on the FIRST drive for XP - so that might present
problems.
In a best case with something like this, you could resize the NTFS
partition (as long as it's not a dynamic partition) so that you have
30mb of free space - to use for /boot. LILO could then inhabit the MBR
and /boot could inhabit the free space, whilst the rest of your linux
file systems lives elsewhere - on the SECOND drive or wherever.
Without knowing what tools you have at hand, you might be able to
download the demo version of PowerQuest's Partition Magic and resize the
NTFS partition (if it's not dynamic) enough...I'd suggest other tools,
but in reality, none are more suited to that task.
If you're in a position to "re-plan" your installation, you might
consider a new scheme. For instance, you could do your initial install
on your FIRST drive, setting aside 35mb of space (safety) that is
unpartitioned or unformatted, and install XP on the remaining drive
space. When installing linux, you could put the LILO and /boot on the
FIRST drive and then the / and /home (or whatever) on the SECOND drive.
My situation is that I have put mine as such:
hd0:
lilo
/boot (50mb)
/ (10gb)
XP - 27gb VFAT
hd1
SWAP - 640mb
/tmp - 500mb
XP - 38gb VFAT
scsi-hd0
/var
/home
BTW, having the VFAT for XP/Win98 gives me the ability to easily
mount/share/read/write files in between the OS's.
HTBH!
Cheers and Good Luck!
I have a setup on one of my computers where the first drive has two windblows OS's
and thus the mbr on the first drive, hda, whilst two mandrake OS's and a common
/boot partition inhabit the second drive, hdb. It has always worked fine.
John
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