I'd do a 15mb boot partition. That way you can store many kernels there. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jose Alberto Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
> I think that you should go with the second scheme.
> (I heard that Mandrake 7.1 solves this problem, though)
>
> Anyway the /boot partition shouldnt be too large either... Somebody more
> knowledgeble than me should be able to tell you how big (10megs?)
>
> Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at
all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows
98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left
only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux.
Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for
Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the
internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is:
can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder
1024?
> >
> > Can I keep my hd like
> >
> >
!----------------Win98(10Gb)--------------!!--------------------Linux-------
-------------!
> >
> > or should I go to something like
> >
> >
!-/boot-!!-----------------Win98---------------!!-----------------Linux-----
-------------!
> >
> > Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Hugo GONZALEZ
>
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> Jose Alberto Abreu
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