In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004291014210.1970-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.cx) wrote:
> Hi Andreas.
>>> I'm having great difficulty finding a solution to my
>>> current problem - I need to boot linux, installed >8GB
>>> into my harddisk.
>> your bios needs to support this. if it does not, no
>> chance.
> All too true. When I set up systems with modern primary drives,
> I generally use the following arrangement:
> 1. /dev/hda1 is a Linux Swap partition of just under 128M
> (not more than 130,950 blocks) in size, starting at
> cylinder 1.
> There are at least two Windows viruses out there that
> overwrite the first megabyte of each hard drive. Having
> the swap partition there means that such viruses can't
> do any damage.
> Also, with modern drive sizes, even a maximum sized swap
> partition does not significantly reduce the capacity of
> the drive, so there is no point in arguing about how big
> a swap partition to use.
"Maximum sized swap partition" ??? That's 2146791424 bytes !
Do you REALLY need THAT much ? Plus 2GiB is 2GiB. Even for modern HDD
it's not unsignificant amount of space...
> 2. /dev/hda2 is a Linux Native partition of around 15M in
> size, and immediately follows the swap partition. It is
> mounted as /boot under Linux.
> Even with modern BIOS's, it is often necessary to boot
> from within the first 1024 cylinders, and putting this
> here ensures that such is the case. It does not need to
> be any larger than 15M, and that can be as little as two
> cylinders with some drives.
> 3. On systems designed to dual boot, /dev/hda3 is the
> primary Windows partition. It extends from the top of
> the boot partition to cylinder 1023, thus allowing
> Windows systems to boot safely.
I'm using three such partitons (for W9X, NT & W2K) so swap and /boot goes to
/dev/hda5 & /dev/hda6 ...
> On systems that are Linux only, this entry is unused.
> 4. /dev/hda4 is an extended partition that occupies the
> remainder of the hard drive.
> 5. /dev/hda5 is mounted as /tmp and /dev/hda6 as / when I
> set the systems up. Other partitions beyond that are
> allocated as required for the individual system.
> Naturally, I keep a paper copy of the partition table handy to
> enable me to reconstruct it if either of the viruses mentioned
> strike.
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