As many of you are aware, my computer's bios cannot support the entire size
of my disk and so win95 cannot see more than 540MB by itself. I've been
using Disk Mangler to fix that but it interferes with LILO so I have to use
a floppy to switch operating systems.
Now, what I'd LIKE to do, is to set the main w98 into a suitable partition
of 500MB, then Linux next, with a second dos partition followed by linux swap.
I'd like the second dos partition to be a further 500 or more MB in size.
The question, if Dos can only "see" the first 540MB of the disk, that which
is under the 1024th cylinder, does that mean it couldn't access another
partition sliced off by Fdisk?
Would it be able to "see" the third partition if it's been formatted by
fdisk as a Dos fat32 or such drive, perhaps reading it as a second hard
drive the way it does with the diskmangler partitions?
That way I could stick the main OS and apps onto the first partition, make
it bootable, then put my data, sound files, pictures, extra toys, etc, onto
the secondary dos partition, allowing me to get rid of the DM and use LILO
to boot.
Also, does the linux swap partition have to be a primary partition, or can
it be an extended partition inside the primary linux partition?
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