🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:52:24 -0600, Jeff Armani <jeffarma@telusplanet.net> wrote:
>
>I have just bought myself a 4.3 GB hard drive and I am about to set up
>partitions and start installing my OSs.
>I was thinking to setup Win95 first and then NT, so NT sees '95 and offer's
>dual boot.  Then I was thinking to install Red Hat on its own partition.
>However, ther are several issues I'm not sure about:
>
>- Will Lilo automatically offer dual boot??
>- Does Linux have to be on my boot partition?
>- Can I make my boot partition NTFS and still have Linux and Win95 boot?

LILO is easy enough to configure for dual boot, but, to simplify things, get
bootpart, a freeware app that will add Linux to the NT boot loader's menu.  I
have 5 OS'es (Win 95, Win NT, Linux, Be OS, OS/2) on my test box, and NT's
boot loader handles them all.

Linux does not have to be on the boot partition, but it does have to be on
one of the four primary partitions (read *not* an extended partition).

And finally, yes, you can have the boot partition as NTFS.  I haven't set up
LILO in this scenario, but, as I said above, I have set up NT's boot loader in
this way.

>Below is an explanation of how I am planning to layout my HD:
>
>Partition 1 (Boot):
>- 1.2GB
>- NTFS
>- Stores NT Srv & WKST
>
>Partition 2:
>- 1.2GB
>- NTFS
>- Application storage
>
>Partition 3:
>- 1.1GB
>- Fat16
>- Stores Win95 and Dos 6.22
>
>Partition 4:
>- 800MB
>- LS OS
>- Stores Linux
>
>If anyone sees a problem with this layout please tell me.  Any help is
>greatly appreciated. Thank you.

The only thing that I'd point out is to be sure that you have all those
partitions listed as primary partitions, not extended.  And finally, it looks
as if you'll be setting up the swap for Linux as a file, instead of a separate
partition.  Most newcomers to Linux are used to MS's practice of files as vm,
but don't overlook the advantages of partition-based vm, which is a bit faster.

>--
>Jeff Armani MCP
>General Computer Assistance
>
>
>


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