Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 09:38:55 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Swapping a 20gig hd
>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:31:04 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Swapping a 20gig hd > > > o Windows has to be the first partition in a dual boot system > > If you use a 3rd party boot manager like XOSL or System Commander, you >can >put just about any OS anywhere you'd like. > > Never had a problem as I recall having a test notebook boot win98, 2k, >xp, >linux, and dos - dos was the first partition here. Indeed - what I should have said was 'if windows is on the first partition, fdisk/mbr will revert to a windows boot - otherwise, as pointed out, you need a boot manager.' Which of course you'll need anyway to get the multiple boot! > > With these, you can easily have 30+ OSs in each seperate partition >booting to >something different. > > > o You need around forty meg either side of cylinder 1023 for the >partition > > (well probably only one side, but what the hell, you've 20g to play with >:) > > For me, that's about 1015-1025 cylinder area on my Hitachi 20gb. >Use a free space wipe tool, then hibernate, then walk the sectors manually >in a >disk hex editor if you want to find out exactly. > otherwise, just leaven 1010-1040 cylinder free and you should be okay. One day I'll get round to sniffing exactly where it goes on my system, in the meantime, 1019-1029 gives 40MB either side of the boundary, and available evidence suggests that's fine on the 50 and 70. The 100 and higher will need more of course, more memory :) Neil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
