On my system at home I have two IDE drives and two SCSI.
LILO lives on /dev/hda in the MBR
Windows is on /dev/hda
/dev/hdb is fat32
/dev/sda has /boot and / and swap
/dev/sdb has /usr
> 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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