"Brian R. Thacker" wrote:
> I was looking at getting a new hard drive and was wondering if someone can help
> me with my large drive dilema. I'd like to get a Maxto UDMA 66 36.5gig drive,
> but I'm not sure I can get it to partion and work properly. I'd like to install
> the following OS's on it with these approximate parition sizes:
>
> Win98 6gig
> BeOS 2gig
> Linux 10gig
> Scratch OS (such as WIn2000, Caldera/Redhat Linux) 4 gig
>
> The rest of the drive space will be for files, etc. Can someone help with a
> partitioning scheme so I can boot these OS's without a floppy (i.e. is there
> some kind of workaround so I can have all boot sectors under the 1024 limit, or
> is there a way I can place them above that constraint?) BootMagic (included
> with PartitionMagic) just won't hack it. Thanks!
>
> --
> Brian R. Thacker __________/ Never look at the trombones,
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Well,
make /dev/hda1 Windows (200-400M C: drive)
/dev/hda2 WinNT/2000 Boot area (about 400M)
/dev/hda3 extended partition (rest of disk)
/dev/hda5 /boot 15-20MB for Linux
/dev/hda6 (Some partitioning to boot Be)
/dev/hda7 (rest of Be)
/dev/hda8 (D: drive/E:drive depending on the file format of /dev/hda2 If hda2 is
NTFS, then it is D:, but for the rest of your Win98)
/dev/hda9 (swap area)
/dev/hda10 (NTFS or drive F: for the rest of Win2000 or whatever)
/dev/hda11 and up Production partitions for linux or Be / , /var, /tmp, /usr,
/home, /usr/local, /opt, and so on.
That should allow LILO to do the job without the bloat of BootMagic
If you are into another sort of solution, surf on over to www.linuxmall.com and
check out System Commander. Anyway, boot partitions have to be complete system
installations for 98, and I dunno what for NT/2000 (don't have a score card to
keep track of that one) and can be small for Linux and I think it is possible to
do Be as you do Linux, but keeping Be early on the disk in total might meet the
limitation.
Good luck,
Civileme
