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Re: Linux and Disk Manager coexistace



On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Gilad Gam wrote:

> I was asked by someone if it is possible to install linux on a disk which 
> has disk manager on it. We're talknig about a 1.2Gb disk on a dx2 with no 
> lba in bios. There's a 800Mb win95 partition and 400Mb left for linux, 
> which the linux fdisk wouldn't work with.
> 
> I think there's no solution other than to kiss the DM goodbye, but since 
> i'm not 100% sure, i'd appreciate your comments.
I had the EXACT same setup, and I did indeed kiss the DM goodbye. this is 
all good and dandy if you don't mind being left with 520 MB of DOS and 
all the rest (500 in my case, 700 in yours) dedicated to bios-independent 
OSs (i.e. Linux, OS/2, NT...). other solutions: buy an LBA controller for 
your DX2's VLB (or PCI?) for some $75, or do like me and upgrade to a DX4 
board, which includes LBA and EIDE on board.

one more point to think about: if you do drop the DM and do a direct 
format for the meantime, you will have to do the same again once your 
hardware supports LBA and you want to move to that...



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