On Fri, 4 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am getting ready to install a new 20 gig hard drive
> in my husbands win98 box. I was thinking about breaking
> it up into several partitions so I could add linux to
> it later. He is begining to show a little interest the
> fact that windows crashed 10 times for him last night
> was motivating. Anyway would it make sense to set up the
> drive with a small partition for boot and then a partition
> or two for windows and data maybe even install the 3 gig
> drive it has as a slave and install Linux on it once I have
> windows set up. Would this work?
> Thanks
> Linda
>
>
This would work. But you do not need the small /boot partition on the
first drive. You can have Linux conpletely on the second drive, except
for the lilo first stage loader in the MBR on the first disk.
One draw back with having more then one partition for Windows is that
most users never use any thing but drive C:. It seams like all software
defaults to installing on C:, and unless they are used to having more
then one partition, all the software and data files end up on C:. I
have seen too many systems where they are running out of space on C:,
and have an empty D: and E:. If you are using fat32 partitions, there
is not much need for more then one partition. With fat16, it was
another story.
If you do deside on more then one Windows partition, you will probably
want to override the virtual memory settings and have the swap file on
a partition other then drive C:.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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