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In article <93010.142626MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu> MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu (Mitch Lewars) writes:
>I have the following hardware setup:
>386 dx w/ 4 megs of Ram
>Intel Above Classic Bus Board 1/2 meg
>1.44m, 1.2m Floppy drives
>90 meg, 60 meg hard drives (with boot on the 90 meg) RLL Encoded
>Trident 8900C video w/ 1 meg
>Vga Monitor
>Panasonic P1124 -24pin printer
>
>Ok, my questions are:
>If I wish to run off a MsDos/Linux Platform
>which OS should have the first partition on
>my boot hard disk?

well, first of all, Linux does not support use of RLL hard drives...
so, you can not have Linux on any of yer RLL drives.  The order doesnt
matter, however, if you have a non-RLL drive.

>Is LILO the best way to enable booting from
>different partitions?

yes, its the specific LInux LOader...  its works flawlessly.

>What partition sizes are recommended? (I'd like 15 megs for Dos)

doesnt matter...  except for the fact that normal linux File Systems
cant use a partition greater than 64 MEGs...

>Can Linux/Unix bases make use of the memory on the Above board?
>Does Linux make use of caches on the Hd/Fd Controller?
>(or are they just ignored?)

dont know...  =)


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