Re: partition help....

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Tassos wrote:
> 
> Well my problems are :
> 1 ) How should i make the partitions in order to give 14Giga for win98 (now
> is 20 giga in one partition) and 6Giga for linux : the main problem is that
> the win98 partition exists already and i don't want to del and repartition
> but instead I use partition magic , but when i try to create the linux
> partition i get 7giga win98, 6giga linux (so to be in the 1024 cylinder
> limit) and finally 7giga unallocated.

So what's the problem with that?  You can assign the extra space to either
a secondary windows drive, other Linux partitions (only /boot needs to
be in the first 1024, not everything), or both.

> 2) why should i use lilo if i already have bootmagic , and how can i
> bypass lilo installation.

I don't really know anything about bootmagic.  Sorry, I only use LILO.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com