erm...I have no boot partition with lilo, a 2gi /partition and no home
partition. Works through. I store a lot of data of my other hard drive which
is full of fat32. It is weird, it wont do linux and it will not boot
windows. I think it has a bad cilender.
I found an alternative boot loader to lilo or grub, and this makes linux a
bit more reliable by preventing windows from doing anything to it. Its calld
the-switch-I-put-in-the-power-cables. Since I have 3 hard drives, all is
working well.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lance Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Linux Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions
> Lance,
>
> It sounds like our systems are identical. I'm running the same thing. The
> answers to your questions are simple enough.
>
> 1) Win95 will run on any size partition. I've had it running already on a
> 3.5GB, 5GB, and 13.5GB. No problem.
>
> 2) partition your linux partitions thusly:
>
> a real basic setup for a large disk sytem that will use LILO as a boot
> loader.
> /boot = 15MB
> / = however big you want to make it. (at least 3 GB) (the filesystem
> root)
> /home = at the very least 500MB - more if you're going to have more than
> one user
>
> You don't have to worry about 'how' the installation process knows how to
> put everything where it needs to go. For now you'll you have to take it on
> faith. It knows exactly where to put things. It can see and read the
> partition tables, understands the table definitions and loads things up
> accordingly.
>
> If you don't want to use LILO you can use the other boot loader called
> GRUB which doen't require a /boot partition since it's equiped to handle
> cylinder sizes above 1024. LILO can't see beyond this which is why a large
> disk needs to be partitioned with a /boot partition.
>
> Even with the use of Grub I still prefer to setup a /boot partition
> because it allows, in my opinion, the system to boot faster and more
> efficiently.
>
> Be ABSOLUTELY sure to create a 'boot' disk while you're installing
> Mandrake. In the event that something happens to your boot loader, or
> you're working on windows and wipe your MBR, where LILO and GRUB live, you
> will need that boot disk to be able to get back into Linux and reinstall
> your boot loader program.
>
> If you need any more assistance don't hesitate to holler.
>
> --
> Mark
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> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Lance Dow wrote:
>
> > Hi there
> >
> > In spite of all the horror stories I've been reading here in this forum
> > over the last couple of weeks, I've decided to install Linux-Mandrake
7.1
> > on my PC.
> >
> > In preparation for this event I've been doing a lot of RTFM-ing (reading
> > manuals and HOWTOs, for those who need a translation). One idea that
> > appeals to me is having separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, etc.
While
> > the FMs are full of useful detail, they all seem to *just* fall short of
> > answering my question. So I turn to the Linux-newbie brains trust for
> > assistance.
> >
> > Right. I have a 13.6G disk drive which I want to set up as a dual-boot
> > system. Once I've got Linux running, I plan to copy the Windows files
from
> > my existing drive onto the FAT32 partition of the new drive. My Windows
> > system currently has a 3.2G disk partitioned as 2G and 1.2G (roughly). I
> > have a lot of spare room on this so I think I can get by with a single
3G
> > FAT32 partition on the new disk.
> >
> > [On reflection, this might not work as I'm still using Win95. I seem to
> > recall this not being able to handle partitions over 2G.]
> >
> > So, with around 10G at my disposal for Linux, my first question is "How
big
> > do I need to make the individual partitions to use this space
efficiently
> > and effectively?"
> >
> > The second question is, having created all these partitions, how does
the
> > install program know which is which, so that what needs to go into /home
> > (for example) actually goes to the right partition?
> >
> > As a Linux newbie I'm likely to want to install everything that comes
with
> > the distro, and probably install and try lots of other stuff as the
months
> > go by. I'd like to create an environment that doesn't make this any more
> > difficult than it needs to be.
> >
> > For what it's worth my current system is three years old and uses an AMD
K6
> > 233 with 64M of RAM. I expect to upgrade it in the next few months to
> > something like an Athlon 700 with maybe 128M of RAM.
> >
> > I look forward to your learned responses. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > (Another) Lance
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
