On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Bauer wrote:
> The easiest solution:
>
> Make the 6 gig the primary drive
> Make the 20 gig the secondary
> Install windows on the primary and leave it that way
> Install linux on the secondary with LILO in the MBR of the primary
> (linux doesn't care which drive it boots from generally)
>
> Note on partitioning:
>
> Make sure that /dev/hdb1 is about 100MB and mounts as /boot
I thought both the linux boot, linux swap, and the Windows boot have to be
within the first 1024 cyninders of the first drive. The way I woul do is:
hda=6GB
hdb=20GB
/dev/hda1 ~20MB /boot Linux native boot partition
/dev/hda2 ~80MB Linux swap
/dev/hda3 (rest) /dos Windows
/dev/hdb1 (whole) / Linux native root
This is very close to what you want I think. It guarantees no problems
with old BIOSes or lilo.
As far as what you install when, Windows will only overwrite the MBR, so
lilo won't be there. So install Linux, make a boot disk, install Windows,
boot off the linux bootdisk, type "lilo" to reinstall lilo in the MBR.
Alternately, you could boot linux off of the rescue disks, fdisk the drive
the way you want, install Windows, then install Linux.
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