Subject:
Recognizing the Etherfast on boot. And a partition question.
Date:
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:55:22 -0500
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With multigig disks and daul operating systems,
my bias is that its best to keep binaries and data separate.
Thus if you lose a binary partition, your data is probably still recoverable
using a rescue disk. You do want to put the DATA partition in front of
linux
binaries, as Win95 doesn't "see across" linux partitions. Thus:
Partition type size role
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/dev/hda1 vfat 500M Win95 binaries,
vfat is the Linux name for the Win95 file
system
/dev/hda2 500 for later updating to Win98, NT or other OS
/dev/hda3 vfat 500 for data saves common to Win95 and Linux
/dev/hda4 extended file system for the remainder of the physical disk
now starting from the end of the extended partition:
/dev/hda6 swap 128kb for linux swap
/dev/hda7 ext2 100M linux root partition
/dev/hda8 ext2 500 linux /usr partition mounting on root
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This still leaves 2 of 4 Gig free.
It's really no benefit having partitions MUCH larger than you need them
as fschk or scandisks just takes SO MUCH LONGER.
The uncommited space can be used for backups, experiments etc.
as needs may arise
End my 2 cents.
MarvS
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From:
"Travis Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Two Questions:
I have an Inspiron 3.2k. I am trying to do an FTP install.
It has a PCMCIA LinkSys Etherfast card. I got a patched boot disk for Red
Hat 5.2 which starts up PCMCIA services correctly after loading the
supplementary disks. But it does not recognize the card (I get the high
beep, then the low pitch beep when it starts up the PCMCIA services).
Question 1: How can I get the boot to recognize the etherfast card so I can
do an FTP install?
Question 2: I have a single 4 gig hard drive. I would like to dual boot
Win98 and Linux. How do I partition the drive into three partitions? One
for Win98, one for the Linux OS and one for the Linux swap?
Thanks in advance,
Travis
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