Hi Jamie,
At 11:06 AM 5/25/00 -0700, Linux Rocks! wrote:
>As long as you have windows as your first partition, and you dont try to
>use more than 4 partitions total (including your swap partition), and you
>dont try to shrink an existing M$ partition, your usually ok.
>
Windows is on a separate c: drive. There are four partitions on the second
drive.
I placed linux on the last partition. I was hesistant to install LILO since
Linux needed to be installed within the 1024 cylinder limit. I ended up with
two partitions for the Linux install (/swap and /) on the last partition
(so I guess
there are now five partitions.
Perhaps my best bet is to boot from floppy when I need Linux on that system.
How would I create that boot floppy? Would it bring the Linux system up
normally?
BTW, I had a 5 yr. old copy of System Commander that failed to install.
Thanks,
Steve
>If you have a 4 gig disk, and you have partitioned 2 gigs for windows, and
>left the other 2 gigs unpartitioned/used, you should be able to:
>
>* boot any current linux distro from cd/floppy/loadlin/net/?
>* Configure unused disk space for linux use (requires re-booting)
>* format partitions/install linux
>* install boot loader (lilo, loadlin, masterbooter, system commander, ...)
>* reboot computer and use your choice of operating system (you can
>actually have many OS's on one hard disk)
>
>Jamie
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
