-- On Thu, 11 May 2000 Raju Mathur wrote:
>
> I have the following disk partition setup:
>
> hda1 2G Linux
> hda2 2G NT with Windows95 bootloader on boot record
> hda3 2G '95
> hda rest (13G) free
>
> When I boot Winduhs it loads the boot loader from hda2 (C:) and that
> boots Winduhs from hda3 (D:). Winduhs is installed on D: (hda3).
>
> However, if I make an extended partition on the rest of the disk, the
> Winduhs boot fails... C: is readable, but it refuses to access D:
with
> ``unreadable media byte'' and drops me into a MS-DUH prompt.
As usual I'm a little late, but what to do -- I get the digest! AFAIK,
DOS and it's descendents are pretty uncomfortable with more than one
primary partition. IIRC, DOS/95 fdisk will not allow you to create a
second primary partition. NT will, though.
I'd suggest you create one primary partition with both NT and '95
system directories on it. Then create an extended partition in which
you can create partitions for as many linuxes as you want as well as
space for 95/NT data.
> P.S. in case you're wondering about the NT, I installed that first on
> C: and then installed '95 on D: . Of course, MS products are
> completely incompatible with each other, so '95 overwrote NT's boot
> sector and now I can't boot NT at all!
You need to install OSs in order of intelligence, dumbest first:
95->NT->Linux.
A tip for you if you intend to install Win2K: Make sure you allocate
enough space for the system directory. It has a dll caching scheme that
eats space at a prodigous rate: At install time it was about 300MB+,
after about 3 weeks it was 1.2G+ with about 800MB in the dll cache.
>
> P.P.S. I have legal copies of all these softwares :-)
Fat lot of good that does you -- you _still_ need linux to do anything
meaningful, including getting your mug on the (appropriately enough)
idiot box. *diving for cover*
Biju
=====
Biju "Botsie" Chacko
"With men and sex when it's right, it's right and when it's wrong, it's right." -
Fishism
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