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thunder@ozramp.ozramp.net.au (Andrew Morris) wrote:

>Sorry to keep going on... 

>I have nearly finished my machine, have most of the disk sets from when
>I used to run a Linux box, but have one question...

>I used to run on two hard disks, Linux on a 170 MB drive, and Windows 3.1
>on a 80 MB.... (tight)

>My question is, if I want to run Windows 95, and Linux, am I better to 
>purchase two hard disks, say 2x 2.5 gb and use one drive for Linux,
>and one drive for 95?  or will 95 and Linux live happily on the one disk?

>I know you can run both on the one drive, but I as I am wary of Lilo, I 
>prefer to use loadlin (as I am now), and boot Linux from Dos, or a menu...

>Can I still use Loadlin if i have both OS's running on the one drive, or
>do i need 2 drives to use loadlin for booting Linux...

>Thanks to everyone who has pointed me in the right direction so far...

>I decided on a Tyan MB w/512 k cache, Hercules 64/3D Terminator, and WD
>hardrive, as I am unsure about Seagates or Quantums... 

>Thanks in Advance (again) :)

>Andrew

Hi,

I think it will be no problem using the two OSes on one disk. IMHO I
have Linux and Win95 on one disk (2gb scsi), and I load Linux with
loadlin from a dos-partition. My Partitions are about

 300 MB Dos
1000 MB Windows95
 700 MB Linux

Now I think that I should have given Linux more space, but this
depends on personal preferences.

Hope that helps.

Bye, 
Andreas                   Andreas.Soller@dlr.de