Re: install SuSE under Boot Manager?

From: Felix Miata (UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE_at_dev.nul)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:18:57 -0500

ray field wrote:
 
> I want to stick with Boot Manager. I've got two HDs, first
> SCSI and the other IDE -- that's where Linux will live.
 
> Disk 2
>
> Partition Information
> Name Status Access FS Type MBytes
 
> None P: Logical FAT 2000
> None Q: Logical FAT 2000
> None R: Logical FAT 1537
>
> P:, Q:, and R: are all empty -- was thinking P: for Linux,
> Q: for apps, and R: for the swapper. I seem to remember

1537M for swapper is very wasteful. My swapper is only 251M.

If 5537M is all you want to allocate to Linux, change P (/dev/hda12) to
3600M ext2 or reiser for / and the boot loader, Q (dev/hda13) to
125M-251M swap, & R (/dev/hda14) the balance to ext2 or reiser /home. In
Linux, apps are generally intertwined with the OS, so only data on a
separate partition makes good sense, at least until you are well past
newbie stage with Linux.

> that Linux has no cylinder-boundary booting issues, does it?

Not v9.0, but that is no matter if your BIOS doesn't support INT13X.
 
> will also be posting a similar message into
> comp.os.linux.setup. & I've got a bunch of old posts
> archived, and several how-tos I'll be reading in the next
> week or two.

I have SuSE in multiboot with doze and OS/2 on two machines. BM is the
boot manager, which loads Grub on /dev/xdx5 when Linux is chosen. I do
all partitioning with DFSee.

Take a peek at URL below before you start. 

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