Re: partitioning 45 gig HD
Hey,
thanks for your suggestions. Making a /boot partition at the being of the
drive makes sense.
I only other question would be, when I install my system from the CD, do I
want to write Lilo to the MBR or do I choose another partition, meaning the
new /boot ~20mb
And if so, is it compatiable w/ windozs 2000 boot menu?
I was able to set up a quad. boot machine. Windows 98 on the first
partition, Linux second, Windows 2000 and Dos 6.0 accessable through windows
98 (boot in ms-dos)
I used only 2 partitions for Linux thought / and /swap 32mb or so.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc A. Donges" <kosh@hadiko.de>
To: "Nick" <daye149@pacbell.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: partitioning 45 gig HD
> On Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 22:07:29 (-0800), Nick wrote:
> > I don't know much about the 1024 cyclinder except that you need to
install root somewhere before it.
>
> We're talking about i386, right?
>
> On older systems, the kernel image had to be before that boundary. I
> usually made a separate /boot partition right at the beginning of the
> disk, then / could be anywhere (well, almost).
>
> > How can I tell w/ my drive? Using a IBM Deskstar ATA/100 45 Gig
>
> AFAIK, LILO in potato supports LBA32 addressing scheme. With that HDD and
> a recent BIOS, where recent is late 1997, you should _theoretically_ be
> able to boot from anywhere on that drive. Still you can use the
> beforementioned approach.
>
> > I wanna make:
> > /
> > /usr
> > /home
> > /data maybe?
>
> Are you asking for size estimates? Heavily depends on desired usage.
>
> > How do I know when to use primary vs. logical?
>
> You can only use a limited number of primary partitions. Primary and
> logical cannot be intermixed in any combination (you cannot put a primary
> between two logical partitions).
>
> With Linux, you don't *need* primary partitions, you can exclusively use
> logical partitions, if you wish.
>
> FYI, I currently have:
>
> hda1 50MB /boot [Primary]
> hda2 2000MB /home [Primary]
> hda5 100MB / [Logical]
> hda6 2500MB /usr [Logical]
> hda7 1000MB /var [Logical]
>
> Where '/usr' is too big and '/home' and '/var' are too small...
>
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