I can tell you that there is not correct way to setup your partitions. But, I
suggest making Windows the first, ext2 second, and swap third. I am also a
beginner. If you have ICQ, please ICQ me at 20177604
Drew Jackman
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I am so close to setting this up, I can almost taste it. I guess you get
> delusional after looking at the computer screen for 12 hours straight.
> Anyway, I can't quite get my hard drive partitioned correctly. I have 12.9
> GB hard drive, and want to use approximately 10 GB for win98, and 2.9 for
> Mandrake Linux 6.1. These are the two setups that seem to be the closest to
> correct.
>
> 1. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32
> hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde2)
> hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partition (hde2)
> hde7, 6 GB, FAT16 >= 32MB or some sort of DOS partition - third part of an
> extended partition (hde2)
>
> This one worked well. LILO booted both Win98, and Linux. The only problem
> was, after I formatted hde7 as a FAT32 in Win98, Win98 took FOREVER to boot,
> and after it did, it couldn't see hde7. The only thing I can think of, is
> that Linux does not support FAT32 as a logical partition in an extended
> partition, wrote something to the disk and then Win98 couldn't figure out
> what was going on. Of course, I could be completely wrong, and have no idea
> what I am talking about.
>
> 2. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32
> hde2, 16MB, Linux Native - I did this and mounted it as /boot because it's
> my understanding that LILO must have /boot within the first 8GB of a hard
> drive.
> hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde3)
> hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partitiion (hde3)
> hde4, 6 GB, some sort of DOS extended partition
>
> This setup allowed me to boot both Win 98 and Linux. The problem with this
> one was that it seems like Win98 only supports ONE primary partition and ONE
> extended partition per disk. I have 2 primary and 2 extended. Again, I
> could be completely wrong. No matter what I did with hde4, Win 98 couldn't
> see it.
>
> So basically, I need to know how to partition my 12.9 GB hard drive to have
> approximately 10 GB for win98, and 2.9 for Mandrake Linux 6.1. Any help or
> suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Collin Davidson
