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Jewish List (was: Re: The new kid on the block.)



This is a Jewish list - each two participants have three different
opinions in which they beg to differ...

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Erez Doron wrote:

> shay.meshulam@aks.com wrote:

> > Q: Is there an option to install Linux on one partition and, let say, some
> > other windows operating system on the other?
> yes there is, but why whould you want MS-Windows for ? ;-)
> 
> well, you have to format one partition with windows FS
> and one with linux FS.

1. Not exactly true.  For Linux you need minimum of two partitions (other 
   people might tell you that if you have lots of memory in your PC, you
   don't need swap partition, but be safe, don't listen to them :-) ):
   * Swap partition - small (64MB-128MB is all that you need)
   * Linux file system partition - the rest.
2. You may want also to be able to dual-boot your PC.  For this, read
   about LILO.  For this purpose, you'll need a Linux partition in the
   first physical 1024 cylinders of your hard disk.  If your Windows
   partition is 1st in the hard disk, this may be very awkward.
   Alternative, with which I am not familiar, is to use loadlin.
                                             --- Omer
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