On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 at 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>it really depends on your needs....if you are just installing linux for
>experimenting a little.... then the 4GB HD is enough....actually it is
>even more than enough......hmmm....maybe he has his reasons why he
>suggested the 10GB for linux....wanna know why? but anyhow, it is your
>call.
Yes, any of the two hard drives will be more than sufficient for a basic
(and more) Linux installation. I'm sorry if my recommendation sounded
dogmatic. I just have this "thing" for giving Linux more space than
Windows when Linux can't have it all. Sort of like giving a favorite child
more than the un-favorite child in situations where it is impossible not
to give the un-favorite child any. Bad analogy, I know. Check the
timestamp, and I hope that'll help you show mercy. Hehehe. ;>
I think Ms. Cruz needs some advice/tips/help as to how she should go along
setting up this multi-booting system. Some stuff that might help her along
the way:
1. I prefer to install LILO on a partition than on the MBR of a drive (for
example, I have /dev/hda2 as a very small partition mounted as /boot and
have /dev/hda1 for my Windows partition. Instead of installing LILO on the
MBR of /dev/hda as I used to, and what seems to be the default, I have
LILO installed on /dev/hda2). This is because a fresh install of Windows
9x normally changes the partition table, making /dev/hda1 the active boot
partition, and re-writing the MBR. Plus of course, a simple 'FDISK /MBR'
would reset (or whatever) the MBR, erasing LILO. With LILO installed on
/dev/hda2 all I have to do (and even from Windows' FDISK, no need to go
frantically a-booting the emergency bootdisk) is reactivate /dev/hda2 as
the active boot partition, and reboot. Voila! :-)
2. It's not so clear to me how BIOS's setup boot disk priorities. How does
it know what "C" is? If /dev/hda1 is an active boot ext2 partition, and
/dev/hdb1 is an active boot FAT32 partition, which will boot? I'm assuming
that the boot partition of the primary master disk is used, though. So if
this is the case, have a small (maybe 5MB?) /dev/hda1 for boot, and the
rest for Windows. Then have /dev/hdb partitioned as you please for Linux.
I'm putting Windows on the primary master because I don't know how it will
respond to being on the secondary master. Haven't really tried, if it
matters at all.
3. I presume the setup is similar to a multi-booting system on a single
hard drive. I've never tried setting a multi-boot system with more than
one hard drive, though, so don't take my word for it. Check out the latest
LILO or multi-booting HOWTO at <ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/ ... something or
other ...>. Good luck, and keep us posted! :-)
-+[ Jijo Sevilla ]+-
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