Hey, thanks for your suggestions. Making a /boot partition at the being of the drive makes sense.
I only other question would be, when I install my system from the CD, do I want to write Lilo to the MBR or do I choose another partition, meaning the new /boot ~20mb And if so, is it compatiable w/ windozs 2000 boot menu? I was able to set up a quad. boot machine. Windows 98 on the first partition, Linux second, Windows 2000 and Dos 6.0 accessable through windows 98 (boot in ms-dos) I used only 2 partitions for Linux thought / and /swap 32mb or so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc A. Donges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:25 PM Subject: Re: partitioning 45 gig HD > On Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 22:07:29 (-0800), Nick wrote: > > I don't know much about the 1024 cyclinder except that you need to install root somewhere before it. > > We're talking about i386, right? > > On older systems, the kernel image had to be before that boundary. I > usually made a separate /boot partition right at the beginning of the > disk, then / could be anywhere (well, almost). > > > How can I tell w/ my drive? Using a IBM Deskstar ATA/100 45 Gig > > AFAIK, LILO in potato supports LBA32 addressing scheme. With that HDD and > a recent BIOS, where recent is late 1997, you should _theoretically_ be > able to boot from anywhere on that drive. Still you can use the > beforementioned approach. > > > I wanna make: > > / > > /usr > > /home > > /data maybe? > > Are you asking for size estimates? Heavily depends on desired usage. > > > How do I know when to use primary vs. logical? > > You can only use a limited number of primary partitions. Primary and > logical cannot be intermixed in any combination (you cannot put a primary > between two logical partitions). > > With Linux, you don't *need* primary partitions, you can exclusively use > logical partitions, if you wish. > > FYI, I currently have: > > hda1 50MB /boot [Primary] > hda2 2000MB /home [Primary] > hda5 100MB / [Logical] > hda6 2500MB /usr [Logical] > hda7 1000MB /var [Logical] > > Where '/usr' is too big and '/home' and '/var' are too small... > > -- > _ _ Marc A. Donges +49 791 51804 > 'v' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > / \ PGP-Key(DSA): 1024D/1C9ECFF2 > W W > Fingerprint: 58B9 07A6 CBB1 7016 EB1D 7D35 EEBE 67DC 1C9E CFF2
