> I have a 14GB disk on which I want to install Win98 together with Red Hat
> 5.0. I have read that Linux may have problems with accessing large disks
> where #cylinders > 1024 and I was wondering what suggestions you have on
> partitioning the disk.
I thought that the problem was only booting from a partition past
cylinder 1024, then you'd need to use a boot disk. Not being able
to access most of a large disk would put linux at rather a
disadvantage for server type uses whouldn't it?
> Suppose I need about 1GB for Linux. Will these
> partitions be successful:
>
> first 13GB: windows 98
> last 1GB: linux
I don't know, if it's a blank drive why not try it and see? you can
always re-do them.
first 500Mb: Windows dir and assosiated files
next 1GB: Linux
last 12.5Gb: Windows D drive.
> or should I put the Linux root partition (incl. /boot) somewhere within
> the first 1024 cylinders? And what about LILO, do I just install it and
> leave it or do I have to dig into the lilo.conf file?
As to lilo, when I installed RedHat 5.0 from a CD, in the installation
went throug a lot of lilo options, which enabled you to easily select
which partitions to be available to boot from, and which to boot to
by default, no need to even know of lilo.conf there.
Simon.
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