Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:57:11 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Overlay program needed? (Was Re: 30Gb. drive questions)
At 04:44 PM 14/11/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:37:45 -0500 (EST) >From: Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Overlay program needed? (Was Re: 30Gb. drive questions) > >> *shrug* someone else will have to answer that ... of course, you do >> realize that both Linux and Win98 ignore the BIOS as far as hard drive >> detection goes so if you make sure your first partition is short of >> 8.4GB and you don't place any files that the OS's need before they >> fully boot on any partition higher than 8.4GB, you won't need the >> drive overlay program at all. The following partitioning scheme or >> something like it should be safe for instance: >> 00GB to 02GB Primary 1, FAT16 - Win98, LILO loader >> 02GB to 04GB Logical 1, EXT2 - Linux / >> 04GB to 08GB Logical 2, FAT32 - critical data storage >> (data you'll want to be able to access with a boot disk >> in an emergency if both OS's go belly-up) >> 08GB to 08.8GB Blank (for hibernation, I've given 400MB each way) >> 08.8GB to 20GB Logical 3, FAT32 - Win98 general data storage >> 20GB to 29GB Logical 4, EXT2 - Linux /data > >I seem to recall getting into a bit of trouble trying something like this >(using "high" partitions without a drive overlay) when I put a 10GB drive >into my L70. Are you talking Win98 or Win98SE? I do know that Win98SE can totally bypass the BIOS when it accesses hard drives. For instance if you tell your BIOS (on your desktop computer) that you definitely have NO hard drive on primary slave (or any other IDE drive except your boot drive) but you've in fact got one connected properly, DOS won't see it, a boot disk won't see it, I don't even think Linux sees it. Win98SE however will detect and mount the drive for you independent of the BIOS (it even gets all the cylinders, etc. right even for really old drives!). Thats in fact one way I've found to get around the problem that happens when you temporarily add a hard drive to your system and it insists on squeezing it in as drive D and moving all your other drive letters back by 1 ... by the time Windows gets around to mounting that drive itself (as the BIOS hasn't done it for Windows) its already assigned drive letters to all the partitions on the drives that you've told the BIOS about so it'll just assign drive letters to this new drive without messing up your existing drive letters! Of course, if you're doing heavy duty hard drive swapping you wouldn't be using Win98SE but since thats still got buggerall to do with Librettos I digress ... hehe ... :-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
