Hi Wayne.

30-Oct-03 08:31:00, Wayne Chirnside wrote to Jasen Betts

  -=> JASEN BETTS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JB>> There are two other ways to do it.

 JB>> one is to make a small primary linux partiton for the boot files
 JB>> before the first FAT partition.

 WC> This sounds like the solutionn I'm actually looking for. How does
 WC> LoadLin operate in a Linux native partition or is some other
 WC> utility used? Feel free to elaborate a bit as I've never setup
 WC> this way but this is the way I want to go on my Win 98 - Linux box

with a separate /boot partition (the above setup) you use grub or lilo
to boot the system

 JB>> so hda1 is the linux boot files hda2 is the FAT32 C: drive and
 JB>> hda5 the second FAT32 (D:)  and hda6 and up etc are the linux
 JB>> partitions.

 JB>> the other way is to put the linux boot files on the FAT drive and
 JB>> use the windows boot menu to boot dos 7.10 and from there use
 JB>> loadlin.exe to boot linux.

 JB>> doing it your way, IIRC if you set the S file attdibute defrag
 JB>> will leave the file in place.

 WC> Great tip as I had not thought of that. Would doing so relocate
 WC> the file at the start of the drive if one were to set that
 WC> attribute and defrag for system speed?

last time I checked defrag just leaves the file alone.
I haven't explicitly tested that on dos versions above 6

 WC> I've a small Linux release here called Dragon Linux that operates
 WC> on a FAT 32 partition but when unzipped it's out beyond 1024
 WC> cylinders and I get a kernal panic message.

which kernel version?

 WC> Seems alot of people don't like running Linux and Windows on the same
 WC> drive but I'm not one of them.

I got given a windows system that turned out to also have a redhat install
on it last month. dunno how he uesd to boot it.

 -=> Bye <=-

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