Re: Sharing drives.

[LL Phillips <lilo.phillips@sympatico.ca>]

Hi Chuck
I guess you are in UK ?
Had you been in Canada or U.S. I would have offered to send you 4 of
these drives as I've put them in a plastic bag in disgust.  By the
time I had finished they were making grinding noises.

You are correct in that it was Slackware I was using.
Now that I've discovered Knoppix I anticipate I will be a lot less
dangerous when I get near a hard drive.  Knoppix can boot off a
bootable CD and run inside RAM.  It will make a swap file on a DOS
partition if it can find one and you give it permission.

Working on getting BootIt as recommended in this list and will report
as I progress.  Hopefully I will not ruin any more drives.
Lorraine

Chuck Gelm wrote:
> 
> LL Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Regarding the statement "Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK"
> > I've recently considered dual booting my W98SE hard drive which is 40G
> > total size with only 20G used made up of C: primary partition and
> > D,E,F,G,H all logical drives in one extended partition (each around
> > 3-6G each)
> >
> > When I put in my W98SE boot disk to make a second PRIMARY partition I
> > was not allowed because fdisk told me there was already a primary
> > partition existing.
> 
>  Probably a few reasons:
> - the disk has no room for another partition, PRIMARY or otherwise.
> - perhaps, once an 'extended' partition is created,
>   no further 'primary' partitions can be created.
> - Perhaps [MS|PC]DOS cannot create a second primary partition.
> - perhaps you should use a 'linux' fdisk to create partitions
>   to install linux. ;-)
> /dev/hda1 20G /WIN98SE
> /dev/hda2 20G extended
> /dev/hda3  3G /Debian '/'
> /dev/hda6  3G /Peanut '/'
> /dev/hda7  3G /share7 ;shared filesystem
> /dev/hda8  3G /share8 ;whatever filesystem that both Debian and Peanut
>                       ;can r/w.
> ...
> Install either of the linux distributions last as Windows(r)
>  overwrites the MBR.
> Linux 'lilo' can boot with a menu to choose which o/s to boot
>  and a default o/s to boot after # seconds.
> 
> > If I wanted to have W98SE, Debian and Peanut Linux all on the same
> > drive how would I go about that. Was I wrong to put in the W98SE boot
> > / rescue disk.
> 
>  I recommend using linux fdisk to create/modify partitions to install
> the linux o/s into.  Also, create/modify them to be a linux type;
> 'second extended' and 'swap' are the only filesystems the I have used
> (Type 83 linux native & type 82 linux swap).
> 
>  Yes, you can install linux into DOS type partitions, however I
>  do not recommend it.
> 
>  Yes, linux can read/write DOS/WIN (2.x, 3.x,9x, ME filesystems
>  (but can only read WIN-NT & WIN-2000 filesystems).
> 
>  Lindows (I'm an insider
> > /pre-general-release-by-subscription user) will install beside windows
> > if one has space on the drive, (it is called a friendly install).  I
> > felt it was too risky to proceed because I didn't want to damage my
> > W98SE main everyday machine.  Asus A7V motherboard.
> 
>  You might damage your W98SE files, but I doubt that you will damage
>  your 'machine'. :-|
> 
> > Would you advise using a Linux distribution root / boot diskette
> > combination to set up my hard drive.  (I've ruined about 8 laptop
> > drives in the past trying so am nervous).
> 
>  If you have a BIOS that can boot from a CD-ROM drive,
> I recommend installing linux from a bootable CD-ROM disk.  ;-)
> 
>  I'm hoping you mean that after you created linux filesystems
> on a hard drive, Windows could not recognize the drive. :-|
> 
>  I'd like to hear more about how a drive was damaged by a linux
> boot/root diskette.  Sounds like a 'Slackware' install to me.
> If you 'linux fdisk' a hard drive and place only linux type partitions
> on it, it will not be recognized by DOS-Windows*.  If you use
> linux fdisk to create DOS/WIN partitions, DOS/WIN will recognize it
> (I think it will recognize the first partition and any sequential
> partitions that are DOS/WIN, but no further partitions after the first
> non-DOS/WIN partition).
> ;-)
> 
> > Lorraine
> >
> > chuck gelm wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, Geoff:
> > >
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