Well... If I were you, and this is in no way the "best" situation, just probably what I would do, is to make two partitions on the 1.2, a 1gig fat32, and 200meg linux swap. The 1 gig can be used for whatever in windows, maybe mp3s, and keeping the swap on the other drive with AFAIK be a better idea because overall preformance in linux will be improoved because its swapping to a different physical device than its loading it apps from. Now for the 13 gig drive, I typically allocate 4 gigs to linux. My current potato installation takes up about 2 gigs, so 4 just for breathing room. that leaves windows with quite a bit, which is ok, since linux can access either partition just as well. I usually keeps mp3's and videos and such on a fat32 so that I can see them from either operating system.
So thats 1.2=> 1)1.0gig fat32 2)200meg linux swap (both primary, it makes device names easier) 13=> 1)windows of whatever size > 4gig <9gig 2)4 gig linux 3)whatever's left over fat32 I would install windows first, then linux. I use the floppies, but there are other, better ways. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "William P. Bergstrom" wrote: > Greetings:I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced > opinions out there! :-D When I finished typing I realized that this > post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up > at the top. I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to > have a debian-win98 machine. I have a pent 200mmx machine 64 mb RAM > running win 98 on a quantum bigfoot 1.2 gig disk (partiontioned to 4 > equal logical). = I pationtioned this drive for data-app segregation, > and easier defragging. Now Im thinking that splitting the drive in > half and using FAT32 might be better.=I've been interested in > Linux and got CD's for Debian and OpenLinux. I just bought a 13 gig > quantum fireball, and want to set up my machine/drives to run both > (Debian-Win98) OS's.I've been bone-ing up on the online installation > manual for Debian and Hardware HOWTO's.Seems like partitioning disks > is critical to the whole process. In the debian users archive list, > I've read about installing win 98 firstthen debian- lilo.So---- the > ground zero newbie question is: I'm ready to WIPE my 1.2 gig drive > and install it as the master on my motherboards secondary controller > and set my CD-Rom as slave. Then install the 13 gig as master by > itself on the primary controller.Then install debian and win98. (btw > 1.2 is dma33 and 13 is udma66, Motherboard has dma33 controllers. > )What about partions? I know that the linux bootstrap loader has to > load within the 1st 1024 cylinders, won't win98 fight over this?Yes my > motherboard will alow me to boot from CD-ROM. What about my thoughts > for drive configuration? Help!Any and all advice would be greatly > apreciated!Bill
