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RE: Install Question...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Van Oostenbrugge)
Tue Nov 3 13:43:21 1998

From: "Steve Van Oostenbrugge" <radar@cyber-wizard.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:40:13 -0800
In-Reply-To: <F12E58AC87BDD1118DD700062B00055A0166E3E2@exch-student.livjm.ac.uk>
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<snip> Steve Wrote...

>>How, when I install, can I have the option to boot into either system
(i.e.. win95 or Linux)?

<snip> Hogg wrote...

>Lilo will let you set it up to boot from any drive, and any partition, but
>there is some limit, I think the boot partition has to be before the 1023
>cylinder, on the disks, so you might have to alter some partitions, quick
and easy to do with partition magic 3 and up.

Does it matter that the drive that I am installing on is 800 MB and not
partitioned for anything?  I plan on using the full 800 MB for Linux...
Wasn't planning on partitioning it other than defining the "map" locations
for Linux (i.e. root is swap, user, home and /usr/local.


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Steve Van Oostenbrugge
radar@cyber-wizard.com
ICQ - 10707631



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