On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Amin wrote:
>
> I think there's an issue here about Linux needing its boot
> partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk,
> or something like that. In any case, here's what I'd
The 1024 cylinder limit only applies to older versions of Lilo, as I
understand it. A
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:51:34AM -0800, Arthur Kng wrote:
>1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and
> delete all existing partitions. make a
> primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the
> Windows OS and which will also have the data
> which i want to access
While you got a lot of feedback on the disk repartitioning question,
responses to your other question seemed cursory.
At 08:16 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, Arthur Kng wrote:
[...]
also i have 128MB RAM. so what should be the size
of my Swap partition?
Anywhere between 0 and 256 MB, depending on things
Repartitioning a drive is always risky - more so if you're new at it. Be
prepared for the possibility of losing data and/or having to start
everything from scratch again (including your DOS/Win partitions). There's
just no absolutely safe way to do this sort of thing: I've done it many
times and ha
You'll need to use Partition Magic to repartition your drive or save off
your data and reinstall everything from scratch. Unfortunately, you've
allocated all of your hard disk as DOS partitions. So you don't have any
left over for linux.
Only me,
Stanley Yee
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From: Art
