Re: Disk partiotioning advice

1999-11-10 Thread Micha Feigin
Running windows and linux dually, is quite easy, you can just use lilo as a boot loader and run windows from it or loadlin and use windows as a boot loader (or whatever it does which looks like a boot loader). Mounting windows partitions from linux is also posible with mount, although I am not shu

Re: Disk partiotioning advice

1999-11-10 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Micha Feigin, > I am looking for advice on how to best partition the disk to allow for > flexability when I need to change configurations/add programs. /smallest as possible (100 : 200 Mb) ** /usr at least 1 Gb (better 2Gb) /usr/local local program and data (it depend

Re: Disk partiotioning advice

1999-11-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: [ snip ] : michf >If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to regular : michf >users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows partition : michf >as the home directory for a user? : : you can, but i dont reccomend it.

Re: Disk partiotioning advice

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: michf >i was wondering whats the larjest partition size that linux can deel with michf >(and if there is still limitation on the size of the root (boot) partition slink is easily able to handle a 9gig drive, i recently installed it on a 10.1gig ibm drive a