From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Taylor" Subject: RE: Partitioning on i386 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3738.66.183.196.224.1060332923.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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. > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Scott long .signature files are annoying -- Scott long .signature files are annoying