>I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that
>machine here, but the failed setup was as follows:
>
>hda1 /boot 100MB
>hda2 WIN95 1GB
>hda3 SWAP 128MB
>hda4 extended partition
>hda5 / 2GB
>hda6 /usr remainder
>
>I used Linux' fdisk utility and then copied the partitions from my other
>drives. I do have three bootable kernels, one of which is in / which
>may be the problem. I did reset my /etc/fstab and reconfigured lilo.conf.
You will definately not be able to LILO boot to any kernel that is in hda5.
I personally can see no reason why the above won't work. I am assuming that
/boot gets mounted onto / at boot time.
>I was considering making a 200MB / partition at hda1, followed by a 1GB
>WIN95 partition, follows by SWAP, /usr and /var. If someone has a working
>partitioning scheme on a 6.4GB disk, I'd love to use a tried and true
>method. Thanks for all the input so far.
Unfortunately I have never done your kind of setup on such a large disk.
Maybe someone else has.
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