Linux partition question
Hello,
although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't actually
installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP Unix server
- well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to ensure that my
wife doesn't divorce me I need to make sure that I get it right. I'm going
to resize my windows98 partition to free up 10GB on which I will put 2
logical partition of 5GB each (i'll probably run stable on one and testing
on the other or maybe woody and mandrake). I'm going to use Partition Magic
7 to resize it. Having looked at the instructions on Powerquest's site it
says this
"IMPORTANT! In most cases, the Windows partition and the Linux Ext2
partition must start below the 8 GB boundary to be bootable. However, if
your system supports INT13 extensions, then Windows XP/2000, Windows Me, and
some Linux distributions can boot beyond the 8 GB boundary. Check your
system documentation to determine if your machine supports INT13
extensions."
Does that mean that if my Linux partitions are first I can't boot windows98?
or if I put Windows first (10GB) I won't be able to boot linux? and what is
INT13?
regards
Leo
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