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Dual Boot System (again)

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From: Hoe Kit Loh
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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From: "Hoe Kit Loh" <hloh@localnet.NOSPAM.com.au>
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Date: 1999/01/19
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