On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:43:43PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I suppose I would have a partitioning something like: > /boot // about 10MB at the beginning of disk > / // about 2GB, the root for Debian > /alt // about 2GB, the root for the other distribution > /hdx // about 18GB, the rest of my 20GB disk, shared between the two dists > swap // about 200MB at the end of disk > > 1- Has anyone done such a thing? What problems did you find? > Does the above make sense?
Many do this including my self. Also /tmp can be shared between multiboot LINUXs. /boot is not needed but does not harm. > 2- My hardware is vintage 2000. I am aware of this issue of the first 1000 > cylinders. How do I determine if my hardware needs the special > /boot partition? Do I need two boot partitions? I thought LILO can handle this with lba32 set. "man lilo.conf". GAG (www.rasttersoft.com) can handle it too. I bet GRUB should handle it too. Cheers:) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
