A question on installing - FC5 32bit and M$Win2000

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mauriat Miranda wrote:

> On 4/24/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> To add, a /boot partition is not required. Linux can boot from either
>>> a primary partition or a logical partition.
>>
>> Hmm.  I didn't know GRUB could boot from a logical partition.
>
> Actually the last I recall both grub and lilo could do this for quite
> some time now. I think I've been doing it since RH9(?). I would always
> keep an unused /boot primary partition, but I never used it. Since my
> last hard drive installation, I've completely eliminated the /boot
> partition.
>
>> But grub can't boot from an LVM logical volume.  I (and the FC5 installer)
>> generally put everything possible in an LVM except for a small /boot
>> partition (though I have more separate partitions in the LVM than the
>> installer's default).  That way, I can resize filesystems easily later on.
>
> I do not know LVM that well. If I had (1) NTFS for windows, (2) /boot,
> (3) swap and (4) LVM ...  then can these all be primary partitions?

Yes, but you have no additional possibilities.  But swap can live inside 
an LVM.  You might also want a FAT32 partition for file transfer between 
Win and Linux.  Some machines come with a diagnostics or restore parition 
that is primary also.

>
> -Mauriat
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>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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