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toolshed
08-21-2001, 02:10 PM
One of my friends wants to try Suse now.....here is what he wants....
30 gig drive with Suse7.2 and windoze 2k
Windoze 2k 20 gigs
SUse 1o gigs....
My question is this: should i install Windoze on first 20 gigs or should i install SUse on first 10 gigs....
what is the deal with 1024 cylinder....
another question: I should right LILO to MBR....on that drive....right
Jr. Grommet
08-21-2001, 02:36 PM
Installing Win98 first then NT makes the NT boot loader automatically configured for dual boot. Then installing Linux last allows you to select between Win98/NT and Linux.
Got that from here: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/tripleb.html
I'm not sure if this answers your question but there you go.
toolshed
08-21-2001, 02:42 PM
No my question is on the drive size....the 1024 rule...how does that work...where does linux need to be in that 30 gig drive....front, back, middle....first 10 gigs...i just not sure
wittysaint
08-21-2001, 02:54 PM
with newer versions of lilo(>=21.4?) u dont have to worry about 1024 pbm.or better still u can use grub.no hassles.
I just set up my system dual booting Win2K and SuSE 7.2.
I put Windows on first, then SuSE. When it asked, I wrote LILO to the MBR, and it picked up windows fine. Worked great.
toolshed
08-21-2001, 03:13 PM
So i dont have to worry about 1024 anymore...
yea i dual myself with win2k and suse7.2...i just never have done a dual with a sngle harddrive
Thanks for all the replies so far....
Windows needs to be installed first--starting at cylinder 0. Windoze does not like not being first on the HD. Especially NT/2000.
Overwriting the MBR with LILO works fine with Win98, but WinNT/2000 is a different story. You have to do special configurations to dual boot with WinNT/2000. Namely, you want to use the Windoze boot manager, and to do this LILO is NOT installed on the MBR, it belongs in /boot. Check out
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html
for details.
Sym, you're heading for trouble with that configuration. You might want to consider a reinstall before you configure your new setup.
Siskmarek
08-21-2001, 09:40 PM
If you're still wary about the 1024 cylinder thing it always helps to drop in the /boot partition at the very front and then windows, so on...
So for me I have about a 40 meg /boot (It could be smaller, but reiserfs doesn't like anything below 32MB, and it just rounded itself off to 40) as the first partition on the drive... then comes about a gig of fat32, then /, then swap.. blah blah. And I'm doing okay!
I've noticed that you don't even have to have the boot loader before the 1024th cyl... even with lilo. But I do the /boot at front because that's the way I've always done it when it did matter... habit, y'know?
~ Siskie