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John Zantey wrote in message
<6upupl$u1o$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
>Don't quote me on this, but I think that there may be a 3G Hdd limit. (Read
>it somewhere, but might be only for an older version of RH)
>If You R going to use more than 1 drive for multiple operating systems,
then
>why not set your 1.2G as master and the other drive as slave. Set Linux on
>the master and WinXX (nt/95/98) on the other drive). When the install
>process asks you to be able to see other drives, this is where you indicate
>which drive(physical or logical - depending on how you set it up) and a
name
>for it... ie: /dev/hda = Linux.... /dev/hdb = WinXX and then save your LILO
>on the MBR of the primary disk.


  Of course!! This is the obvious solution (without doing anything
technical), thanks :)  BTW, my setup on initial Redhat installation was
(IIRC):

   3Gb - win98 (fat32)
   2Gb - empty (set aside for future win nt install)
   1.5Gb - linux

  The first time I noticed the problem with the corrupted partition table
was after using fdisk during the red hat install. I changed my mind about
the swap size and tried to go back into fdisk (using the back button in the
install utility), and the partition table was screwed, ie. my win98
partition was now 2kb!!!! I restarted (hoping it hadn't written the
partition table) but win98 wouldn't boot (corrupted VFAT), but all my
directory info (some 1.5Gb of stuff) was intact, in my 2kb partition :(
   After numerous attempts to get LILO on the MBR, I switched to the
non-UDMA drive, and install went without a hitch. So methinks it's more a
compatibility issue with Seagate's UDMA drives tahn anything else...

KK