Re: [aclug-L] Newbie Partitioning Questions

[jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx]

My Win95 experience has told me that even relatively simple changes to the
filesystem are possible problems.  The funny one is adding a second drive.
Even though the first one is "primary master" the primary partition on the
second drive takes over "d" status and puts the extended partition on "c"
to "e."  Enough to make my head swim during 3:00am marathon install
sessions.  In DOS you can reserve the drive letter for the CD-ROM with the
/H:d  switch (d=desired drive letter).  I'm not aware of any way in Win95
to do without putting the entry in the config file.  That would only
consist of finding the driver and referring to it and putting the proper
invocation in the autoexec file (c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe - if it's
there).  I expect though, that there will be no change.  If you dual boot
NT it's the same thing.  Putting NT into the  NTFS format will make the
drives invisible to Win95, although NT can still see and use them
(likewise, Linux will still be able to see the other partitions and use
them if they're mounted).  As long as the original partitions (Win95) are
still in the same relative places (primary-master-primary,
primary-master-extended, etc.) nothing should change.  Famous last words.
:-)  What the heck . . .  Give it whirl.

jeff




rosencut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on 03/21/99 04:12:48 PM

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Actually, Jeffrey, I understood what you meant the first time!  (The one
big partition is referring to pre-Linux install.)  I guess what I was
trying to confirm was that Win95 won't see any of the Linux stuff;
therefore my CD-ROM (now drive G:) won't get pushed back a letter or
two, requiring me to reinstall the Win games my son runs off of CD.

Thanks.

Jim

jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Let me further explain what I didn't say correctly the first time.
> (Actually, I told him I thought the /usr needed the most room, so that
> implied that I meant to keep multiple partitions in the Linux
environment, > but I opened my mouth and lost all control of the content
from there on.
> :-/  )
>
> I do believe in multiple partitions.  I don't see any need of setting up
> the partitions before RedHat sets them up, however.  RedHat will see the
> one big partition and then ask you to specify the sizes and locations.
> It's really pretty much of a wasted effort to partition them first since
> they'll be in the wrong format anyway.  That's what I meant.  I don't
know > why I'm acting like an expert anyway.  Mine box is a mess so I
shouldn't > presume to know what I'm talking about.
>
> jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx on 03/21/99 03:04:45 PM
>
> Please respond to aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> > I'd personally leave it all in one big hunk.  I'd also use fat16 so you
> can
>
> That's a bad idea...
>
> What if you download Netscape 17.6 and it accidentally fills your
> partition?  Then your / partition fills, too, which can cause SERIOUS
> problems.
>
> Or suppose something bad happens and you have filesystem corruption... if
> you have multiple partitions, then the corruption is issolated to a
single
> partition.  Then you have a much better chance of not losing valuable
> data.
>
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