What happens if you set both partitions active? How can I squeeze a linux partition in to my laptop that already has one large fat32 partition, I understand I can use fipps, but if the newly split partition becomes past the 1024th cylinder, seeing I have about 8.4 gigs, is there a utility to move dos down the disk aways so linux can be happy in the 1024 range? I don't really know what my laptop's bios does or doesn't support, as it is often hard to get this info. I just coincidentally had the disaster that required a format just as I was thinking of putting linux on this machine, so it was set up the way I wanted it, but the fact that there's already windows established on my laptop scares me of what would result from using fipps on it. At 10:28 AM 7/1/00 +1000, you wrote: >I'm a stickler for correctness so here goes. >If anyone wants clarification let me know and I can reply offlist or similar >:-) >This was a message from Jean. My reply doesn't tell the full story but enough >of it :-) >> If I understand you correctly, and you want to make Linux its own >> bootable partition, then you should make Linux the second partition, and >> DOS the first partition. DOS/Windows does not like being on anything >> but the first partition. >Well that is not 100% correct. The master boot record scans the partition >table for the first active partition. As long as the partition is primary and >only one is set active, the dos mbr should have no trouble normally. >Trouble can occurr if the boot area is past cylinder 1024 (10 bit field in bios >for cylinder) but that holds true for any os boot loader that relies on the >bios to get loaded. This is why the nt boot loader, the dos system files >or lilo's stage 1 or grub's stage 1 must be <1024 cylinder wise. >Lilo fixes this in the newest greatest release not sure about grub it uses >extended in13 provided your motherboard has it not all do. > >Oh and a bug in the dos boot sector stops dos booting if it is past the >first 2gb, that took me days to sort out. > >Regards, Kerry. >> >> Gene >> >> >Any file named with more than 8 letters will have goofy names when seen >> >from dos. As for moving the dos directory, if you use something called >> >lilo, for linux loader, you could set it up to boot drive d as dos and c as >> >linux, as long as they're on different hard drives. You're boot prompt >> >would let you choose from /dev/hda1 for linux and /dev/hdb1 for dos if >> >things worked right. There's a lilo mini howto at www.linuxdoc.org. There's >> >a liloconfig in slackware, but don't count on it, as I trashed my windows >> >system when I tried to make a boot floppy with it. I think what it did was >> >put the loader on the superblock, where fdisk /mbr wouldn't fix it. I >> >wouldn't advise setting it up until you get linux on it's own partition or >> >drive, as zipspeak won't allow windows and linux to dual boot from the same >> >partition. >> >At 06:43 PM 6/28/00 -0700, you wrote: >> >>I have been using zipspeak on my D drive. Eventually I want to go to a >> >>full linux distribution but have some things to do before that can >> >>happen. Meanwhile, as my C drive is larger than my D drive, I would like >> >>to delete my present version, mmove the files on my C drive to D, and >> >>install zipspeak on my c drive. I am using DOS. I know I will have to >> >>leave the DOS hidden files, command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat on >> >>my C drive. Can I move the actual DOS directory to my D drive as long as >> >>I change the paths in my config.sys and autoexec.bat files?Also, do I have >> >>to copy files I want to save from my present zipspeak to a floppy using >> >>linux or can I use the DOS copy command?--Cheryl >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >> >>Speakup mailing list >> >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >-- >-- >Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org >Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au >ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
