Re: ground zero
Well... If I were you, and this is in no way the "best" situation, just
probably what I would do, is to make two partitions on the 1.2, a 1gig
fat32, and 200meg linux swap. The 1 gig can be used for whatever in
windows, maybe mp3s, and keeping the swap on the other drive with AFAIK
be a better idea because overall preformance in linux will be improoved
because its swapping to a different physical device than its loading it
apps from. Now for the 13 gig drive, I typically allocate 4 gigs to
linux. My current potato installation takes up about 2 gigs, so 4 just
for breathing room. that leaves windows with quite a bit, which is ok,
since linux can access either partition just as well. I usually keeps
mp3's and videos and such on a fat32 so that I can see them from either
operating system.
So thats
1.2=> 1)1.0gig fat32 2)200meg linux swap (both primary, it makes device
names easier)
13=> 1)windows of whatever size > 4gig <9gig 2)4 gig linux 3)whatever's
left over fat32
I would install windows first, then linux. I use the floppies, but
there are other, better ways.
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
"William P. Bergstrom" wrote:
> Greetings:I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced
> opinions out there! :-D When I finished typing I realized that this
> post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up
> at the top. I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to
> have a debian-win98 machine. I have a pent 200mmx machine 64 mb RAM
> running win 98 on a quantum bigfoot 1.2 gig disk (partiontioned to 4
> equal logical). = I pationtioned this drive for data-app segregation,
> and easier defragging. Now Im thinking that splitting the drive in
> half and using FAT32 might be better.=I've been interested in
> Linux and got CD's for Debian and OpenLinux. I just bought a 13 gig
> quantum fireball, and want to set up my machine/drives to run both
> (Debian-Win98) OS's.I've been bone-ing up on the online installation
> manual for Debian and Hardware HOWTO's.Seems like partitioning disks
> is critical to the whole process. In the debian users archive list,
> I've read about installing win 98 firstthen debian- lilo.So---- the
> ground zero newbie question is: I'm ready to WIPE my 1.2 gig drive
> and install it as the master on my motherboards secondary controller
> and set my CD-Rom as slave. Then install the 13 gig as master by
> itself on the primary controller.Then install debian and win98. (btw
> 1.2 is dma33 and 13 is udma66, Motherboard has dma33 controllers.
> )What about partions? I know that the linux bootstrap loader has to
> load within the 1st 1024 cylinders, won't win98 fight over this?Yes my
> motherboard will alow me to boot from CD-ROM. What about my thoughts
> for drive configuration? Help!Any and all advice would be greatly
> apreciated!Bill
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