I am so close to setting this up, I can almost taste it. I guess you get
delusional after looking at the computer screen for 12 hours straight.
Anyway, I can't quite get my hard drive partitioned correctly. I have 12.9
GB hard drive, and want to use approximately 10 GB for win98, and 2.9 for
Mandrake Linux 6.1. These are the two setups that seem to be the closest to
correct.
1. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32
hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde2)
hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partition (hde2)
hde7, 6 GB, FAT16 >= 32MB or some sort of DOS partition - third part of an
extended partition (hde2)
This one worked well. LILO booted both Win98, and Linux. The only problem
was, after I formatted hde7 as a FAT32 in Win98, Win98 took FOREVER to boot,
and after it did, it couldn't see hde7. The only thing I can think of, is
that Linux does not support FAT32 as a logical partition in an extended
partition, wrote something to the disk and then Win98 couldn't figure out
what was going on. Of course, I could be completely wrong, and have no idea
what I am talking about.
2. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32
hde2, 16MB, Linux Native - I did this and mounted it as /boot because it's
my understanding that LILO must have /boot within the first 8GB of a hard
drive.
hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde3)
hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partitiion (hde3)
hde4, 6 GB, some sort of DOS extended partition
This setup allowed me to boot both Win 98 and Linux. The problem with this
one was that it seems like Win98 only supports ONE primary partition and ONE
extended partition per disk. I have 2 primary and 2 extended. Again, I
could be completely wrong. No matter what I did with hde4, Win 98 couldn't
see it.
So basically, I need to know how to partition my 12.9 GB hard drive to have
approximately 10 GB for win98, and 2.9 for Mandrake Linux 6.1. Any help or
suggestions are appreciated.
Collin Davidson
