From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: Sharing drives. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:33:18 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D9CB79E.54505E03@gelm.net> References: <000501c269e8$b8ca73c0$af33f7c2@gcb> <3D9AE71D.D509316F@gelm.net> <3D9C4FAB.8CAD330F@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LL Phillips Cc: geoff , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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: > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs