Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 8:35 PM On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Patrick Meidl
I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:26AM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have

linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Patrick Meidl
# abstract: what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and

RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Evan Van Dyke
what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote: primary: 1) X MB linux native for booting linux 2) 1 GB fat16 for win95 3) extended: 4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) 5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps 6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux for ease I have indexed the

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread jason and jill
after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Personally, I use loadlin to boot unix

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread JonesMB
furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :) I have the same setup here. Problem is

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], JonesMB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under