RE: Partitioning on i386

["Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>]

See Miguel, this is what I refer to as "Top Posting".  This person
didn't even bother to reply to my last questions and even started a
new question slightly off topic without starting a new thread.
Obviously doesn't deserve any more of my time.

Scott.


Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS) said:

> Hello,
>
> Iam trying to install redhat Linux 9.0.
>
> i dont understand this cylinders concept? does it mean that first i
> need to
> reserve some 1024 cylinders for linux installation and then start
> windows
> after 1024 or what? if we already have a windows installed then how
> can i
> reserve this space??
>
>
> can anybody guide me with some instructions for this partitioning?
>
> thanks & regards
> v.r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Taylor [mailto:scott@dctchambers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: krylon@gmx.net
> Subject: RE: Partitioning on i386
>
>
> At 09:39 08/07/03, Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS) wrote:
>>hELLO,
>>
>>i have a hdd of 27 gb under which Windows 2000 is installed.
>>
>>the existing drive partitions are like
>>
>>c:drive  8GB
>>D: drive 10 GB
>>Free space 9 GB
>>
>>i started the red hat installation and the automatic disk
>> partitiioning
>>failed. so i chose manual partitioning.
>
> Which version of RedHat?
>
>>whenever i try, iam able to create either /  and swap  or /boot and
>> swap or
>>/boot and /.
>>
>>any time its not allowing me to create the third one.
>
> Because drive D: is taking up the extended partition space.
>
>
>>how can i proceed to have a win2k and linux dual boot?
>
> If you can remove Drive D: from window then do so.  Create /boot and
> then
> create / and /swap in extended space.  Leave the rest unpartitioned
> then
> recreate drive D: next time in Win2K.
>
> There are good how-to's at http://tldp.org to help with dual booting
> Win2K
> and other OS.
>
> HTH
>
> Scott.
>
>
>
>
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