Quoting Lowell Voelker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32 > from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first > 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian?
Yes, just so long as you can boot the kernel from somewhere. If the BIOS can't read it from a partition with such a high cylinder position, then there are other tricks like loadlin, or having a copy of the kernel early enough in your FAT32 partition. BTW remember to consider a swap partition. > I have no way of knowing if the rescue dice will reload Win98 if I start > over and set up Fat16 for the first 2GB? > > There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be > Fat16. Is this true? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but taken together, are you suggesting in order: W98/FAT32 20GB+ ----- FAT16 2GB ----- linux/ext2 rest with FAT16 shared? (I can't quite see the point. Linux can mount W98.) I've not heard of such a rumoured restriction. What's it meant to affect? Or are you going to move W98 thusly: FAT16 2GB ----- W98/FAT32 20GB+ ----- linux/ext2 rest which may suffer from W98 suddenly moving to D: because the first partition is now C:. Could you be more specific and precise about what you want to do. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
