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RE: Can Win98 and RHL5.1 Peacefully coex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richardson,Anthony)
Fri Oct 23 08:02:12 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:00:00 -0400
From: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Win98 and Linux can peacefully coexist. I've got DOS/Win95, Win98,
WinNT Workstation, WinNT Server, Debian Linux, and Redhat Linux all
installed on a single machine. (I'm waiting for my Solaris CDs to
arrive so I can install that as well.)
I don't understand why you would have LBA mode shut off in the BIOS.
It shouldn't matter to either Win98 or Linux a neither use the BIOS
for disk access (and both use LBA for disk access bypassing the BIOS),
but it will matter to your boot manager.
Are you confusing FAT16 and FAT32 file systems? The FAT16 file system
is limited to 2 GB partitions, but that ceiling is much higher with
FAT32.
There is usually a way to have fsck run automatically when you boot
the system. I don't know what you have to do off the top of my head
though.
Tony Richardson
On Thursday, October 22, 1998 10:21 PM, redhat-list
[SMTP:redhat-list@redhat.com] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I recently got a new personal computer for home and I was proud
> when I finally got windows and red hat linux both installed on it with
> a
> dual boot(I had to rebuild the kernel from scratch and you know what
> a
> chore that can be the first time round). Anyway, everything was
> working
> all hunky dory until the other day when I rebooted the computer into
> windows and ran an application. When I was done and I went back into
> my
> linux partition, I got a message saying that my disk had some errors
> in
> it(I didn't even bother running fsck manually because I know it
> wouldn't
> get me anywhere). So, I copied my bzImage onto a floppy so that I can
> use
> it again when I reinstall RHL5.1 and I am in a position to reinstall
> linux, but I need to know why this error occurred so that I am not
> just
> reinstalling in vain. One possibility is that LBA in windows is
> giving me
> grief. I have an extended dos partition of 5 gigs with 2 logical
> partitions within it of 2 gigs each. I have Large Block Addressing
> shut
> off on my bios, but I kinda extrapolated that with it shut off I only
> could make a partition of only 2 gigs each. Needless to say that LBA
> is
> not compatable with other OS's. Could this be the problem??
>
>
> Here's my partition table:
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System
> /dev/sda1 * 50 50 511 473088 b Win95 fat32
> /dev/sda2 512 512 643 135168 82 Linux Swap
> /dev/sda3 * 750 750 3071 2377728 83 Linux native
> /dev/sda4 3072 3172 8191 5140480 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 4096 4196 6143 1994752 b Win95 fat32
> /dev/sda6 6144 6200 8191 2039805 b Win95 fat32
>
>
>
>
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