Re: Linux and OS/2 together...

On 2007/01/05 16:58 (GMT+0100) csola apparently typed:

I would like to install software in the following order:

Bootmanager (eCS or Grub?...)
eCS - first winchester (HPFS)
Linux (Ubuntu 6.10) - first winchester (ext3)
Linux swap - first winchester
Comon data - first winchester (FAT32)
eCS users programs - second winchester (JFS)
eCS data - second winchester (JFS)

1. winchester 40GB
2. winchester 80GB

How do I go about doing this?

Start by creating all your partitions first, using an OS-agnostic tool
(not Partition Magic or anything else windoz-centric) or else eCS's LVM.
If you use LVM, install your BM during the rest of your partitioning. If
you use anything else, initially use that to create a single cylinder
primary partition for BM. When all your partitioning is done, complete
the process by deleting that single cylinder primary, so the eCS
installer can use the space for BM.

Once you've completed the partitioning, it doesn't really matter whether
you install eCS first or Linux.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/dfsw-m7ncd-O.log is a text file
describing the layout on one of my many multiboot systems that has all
on one HD eCS 1.14 and eCS 2.0b3, plus DOS, SUSE 10.2, SUSE Factory,
Fedora 5, & Knoppix, with plans to add Mandriva Cooker as soon as I get
a round tuit. ;-)

Whether you use BM or Grub is a personal preference thing, but if you
wish to depend on Grub to boot eCS, either Grub will have to chainload
BM first, or you can omit BM if you install eCS on a primary partition.

Since you too are obviously already an eCS user, I suggest you skip
Ubuntu and instead install Mandriva or SUSE with KDE, but if you insist
on the Debian derivative, choose Kubuntu instead. Gnome is just too much
more NOT like eCS than KDE.
--
"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
John 10:10 NIV

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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