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Article #47098Dual Boot System (again)
From: Hoe Kit Loh
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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Hi again, Thanks for all your help everyone, but the Linux Pocketbook is sold out at the newagent's and the APC site is down. So back I come :) Basically my situation now is I have my 14GB disk, and I want to load win98 on asap - I'll allocate about 10-12GB (partitioned) of space to Win98, and the rest to Linux which I will load in later. Now how do I partition my drive to accommodate for this? Do I partition and FAT32 format 10-12GB of space and leave the remainder as "free space" for Linux to partition and format? Or do I partition the remainder under DOS first and then let Linux deal with it later? Do I have to load any part (the boot part?) of linux in the first ~500MB of the hard disk (if I boot Linux thru Win98)? How do I split up the Linux section of the hard disk (with linux's version of fdisk I assume)? From what I understand, I need a root partition, misc. data partition (optional but nice) and a swap partition. Sorry about that barrage of questions :). Many Thanks, Stuart Loh.
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