well, there is only one MBR per hard drive, it does not matter how many
partitions you have! I would go ahead and run the windows fdisk and do
you windows partitions and leave enough space at the end for whatever
amount you want to allocate to linux. Then boot up linux and run linux's
fdisk. If it is a PC you only really need two partitions on linux, if it
is a server don't read on.. I would make sure I left about 64M to 128M
for swap space and then make the rest your / drive. Then when you install
linux it will let you configure lilo which will then overwrite everything
on your MBR. Then you should be able to boot both because at start-up it
will ask you which OS to start. Anything esle..just ask, but this is the
easiest way as I see it.
-Brad
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, albert e martinez eet stnt wrote:
>
> O.K. guys, I'm almost there, two more sets of questions.
>
> 1) How many MBR's per hard drive? One per hard drive or one per
> partition?
>
> 2) Linux fdisk tells me that the number of cylinders on my HDD is
> 13328, as does the label on my HDD. BTW, the size of my hard drive is
> 6448MB. Furthermore, this can cause problems with:
> a) software that runs at boot time (e.g, LILO)
> b) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK).
>
> This being the case, which of these options should I implement?
> a) Linux partition on the first GB and windowz partition on the last
> 2GB
> b) Linux partition in the first 512MB and windowz partition on the
> 2nd 512 MB [13328 cylinders / 6448MB = 2 cylinders / MB;
> 1024 cylinders * MB / 2 cylinders = 512 MB] then other partitions
> as needed.
>
>
> AL
>
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