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Re: Large IDE with On Track overlay?? How????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Wed Oct 30 15:15:42 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:12:57 -0800
From: BORG <see_my_address@in_my.signature>
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Kyle Burris wrote:
>
> I've read the large IDE mini-howto and I'm thouroughly confused. Can
> someone please describe how to configure a Western Digital 1.2 GB hd
> for use with BOTH Linux and DOS? I would like to have about 300M for
> Linux and 900M for DOS.
To summarize: When you are installing Linux, at the beginning
of the installation process, you'll be asked if you need to
repartition and reformat your drive. Say "yes", then divide it
into 4 partitions, 150MB, 50MB, 350MB, ??MB (the rest) for DOS.
Why so? I'd highly recommend to give Linux about half of your
drive: you might regret having no disk space later when you get
the taste of all those nice X-based apps (I filled 1.2G with
Linux stuff in just 4 months!). Then, you'll be given a choice
where to install and where to mount your partitions: mount
the first one under "/", the second one will be a swap partition,
the third one "/usr", the fourth for DOS. Then install LILO on
a floppy or on MBR, the install process will guide you through it
as well, add both DOS and Linux as bootable options, boot in DOS
after you finished installing Linux and format its partition.
> How do I do this without bumping into the DOS
> barrier of 500 +/- meg? I have the OnTrack Drive Manager software, but
> it seems to be incompatible with linux. Help? Thanks.
> Kyle Burris
Using OnTrack managers with LILO == looking for trouble.
Regards,
Vlad
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