Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my
>HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb
>big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb),
>the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX
>told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit
>installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew
>larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within
>the cylinder 1024?
>
> Can I keep my hd like
>
>
>!----------------Win98(10Gb)--------------!!--------------------Linux--------------------!
>
> or should I go to something like
>
>
>!-/boot-!!-----------------Win98---------------!!-----------------Linux------------------!
>
> Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hugo GONZALEZ
Hugo,
This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're
partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions.
"/boot" = 10Meg
"/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to
physical limits
SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg
that's really all there is to it.
--
Mark
I love my Linux box...
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