RE: Windows98 and linux on one large disk

["Riddle, Eddie R." <ERiddle cottoninc com>]

Ramana,

 

Your response to my query was "more than adequate" documentation to solve my dilemma.  I'm posting it with this message because, your clarity in writing a succinct descriptive solution is appreciated and might be useful for any lurking mail list documentaion operations.  I edited your response below with a minor note of an MS Windows98 installation insistence of format all partitions).  The integrity in minor things can add up in nonlinear ways.

 

Riddle

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramana Tadepalli [mailto:ramana wilnetonline net]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:14 PM
To: Riddle, Eddie R.
Subject: Re: Windows98 and linux on one large disk

What you did:

> I've installed Windows98 within the first 450Mb.  Then I installed linux,
> using the next 10Gb.  I used 8 partitions here.  The dual boot with LILO
> works.  If I use DOS fdisk, it indicates that the extended partion is full,
> consuming 19+Gb.
>

Your mistake ...

Fdisk will mostly read partitions other than fat(32) improperly.

You must Complete all windows installations and then let disk druid grab a part of it, for linux

 

try this:

1. Make a partition table using windows fdisk. Split up the disk into  atleast 3 parts.

section1 => your windows primary partition (C:), and keep the size to just as much as necessary.

section2=> rest of the disk as an extended partition.

    segment the extended partition into 2 parts. One for all of linux. This must         appear initially as drive D:

    the second part is rest of windows, and must be the last partition made.(E:)

2.format drives C: and E: for windows using format.com for win.

3.Load windows onto the system using a normal method.

4.The win system is now ready and working. It will not read drive D: since it is not formatted.  Here the Windows98 installation offers two options: format the unformated drives or exit installation (Riddle), so you format.

5. Now boot using a lilo boot disk or the RH Cdrom if it bootable.& run disk druid.

disk druid will now read all partitions and something like this must be seen:

    hda1 => win32bit (is your c:)

    hda2=>  this is where all your linux partitions are going to be made.

    hda3=>   win32bit(is your e:). Once you make your lin partitions windows         will see this as D:

6. Make as many ext2 partitions as needed inside what is now hda2. This will cause hda3 to be renamed accordingly. If there is a problem with LILO , try reducing the size of the first windows partition

 

I hope this helps...

Ramana

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Riddle, Eddie R. <ERiddle cottoninc com>

To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>

Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:21 PM

Subject: Windows98 and linux on one large disk

> When installing a dual boot system on a large disk (20Gb), (how) can one
> sandwich linux between DOS partitions?  That is ...
>
> 1. Windows98 is installed first in the "under the 1024 cylinder limit", say
> the first 450Mb, (I used the DOS fdisk to partition),
> 2. linux is installed in partitions in the next 10Gb, (I used  druid to make
> the linux partitions),
> 3. and then it is desired to have another partition to be accessible by
> Windows (fat32) for general workspace.
>
> I've installed Windows98 within the first 450Mb.  Then I installed linux,
> using the next 10Gb.  I used 8 partitions here.  The dual boot with LILO
> works.  If I use DOS fdisk, it indicates that the extended partion is full,
> consuming 19+Gb.
>
>
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