When they say "large partition", they mean FAT32 or what we call in the linux world, Vfat32. You really want that for your windows stuff. Linux uses its own partitions for swap and ext2 file system so there is no side effects from the MS activities. Just remember that "lba32" option in lilo or you may have problems getting linux to boot. The lba32 thing is for large drives. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hello list, Here is what I need to do. I have two drives here. One is a > 20Gb/7200rpm and the second is a 40GB/5400 RPM. I want to set up Linux and > Windows on the first drive and use my second for data storage. . When I > use the windows Fdisk command to create the Windows partition I get asked > If I want large disk support. Fdisk gives me a message stating something > to the effect If I enable this no other operating system will be able to > use the drive. I know that is not quite true but Fdisk also goes on to > tell me if I disable large disk support Windows will only support > partitions up to 2GB. Can I disable the large disk support and create a > partition that's larger than two GB? > > Thanks in advance, > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
