Re: partition help....

[Paul Newman pgen com]

Following / during your install I would recommend you use Lilo rather than Boot
Magic etc. because you can update lilo very easily from the command line and by
editing /etc/lilo.conf every time you install a new kernel.

There again, if you dont think you will be recompiling your kernel much then you
would not need the extra convvenience lilo gives.

I suppose you may not know at this stage whether you will be recompiling and
installing kernels much. If you are going to do any kernel hacking or if you are
involved with testing new hardware and the like on the development kernels, then
you will, but other than that you will not do much kernel recompiling....







kevinc grainsystems com on 31/03/2000 15:44:13

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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


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