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by **Cameron Ninha** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I have a computer with a 30 GB hard drive. The drive is partitioned
into three sections, each roughly 9 GM in size. On the first and second
partition I have Windows NT and 98 installed respectively (for work
purposes *smile*). I wish to install Linux (either RedHat or Debian) on
the last partition.

Can I install Linux on the last section of a 30 GB drive? Will Linux
operate and function normally?

My reason for asking this question is that with Windows NT during
boot-up the Kernel cannot access anything on the primary drive after the
first 2 GB address space -- this is also critical for the Blue Screen of
Death and Core Memory Dumps, etc. I guess this is due to the limitation
of a 16 bit address operating system???

I would appreciate it if you could, in addition replying the the News
group, email me your responses also, please. I am working at a client
site where I do not have readily access to the Internet, USENET, etc.

Thank you.

Cameron Ninham

by **George Shapovalo** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Well, you can. You just need to have one small partition inside first 8 Gb
(100 MB will suffice) as your /boot where you will keep the kernel. That is
if you want to boot regularly from HDD using lilo. This is limitation of
BIOS, it cannot boot from higher then 1024 cylinder. You can get around
that, but in this case you will be forced to use boot disk. You may set your
BIOS to boot a:,c:,smth in sequence and then boot into NT just regularly and
into linux after you insert floppy (just insert and hit power). You can find
instructions in bootdisk HOWTO probably.

> I have a computer with a 30 GB hard drive. The drive is partitioned
> into three sections, each roughly 9 GM in size. On the first and second
> partition I have Windows NT and 98 installed respectively (for work
> purposes *smile*). I wish to install Linux (either RedHat or Debian) on
> the last partition.

> Can I install Linux on the last section of a 30 GB drive? Will Linux
> operate and function normally?

> My reason for asking this question is that with Windows NT during
> boot-up the Kernel cannot access anything on the primary drive after the
> first 2 GB address space -- this is also critical for the Blue Screen of
> Death and Core Memory Dumps, etc. I guess this is due to the limitation
> of a 16 bit address operating system???

> I would appreciate it if you could, in addition replying the the News
> group, email me your responses also, please. I am working at a client
> site where I do not have readily access to the Internet, USENET, etc.

> Thank you.

> Cameron Ninham

by **Lonni J. Friedma** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Well, you can. You just need to have one small partition inside first 8 Gb
> (100 MB will suffice) as your /boot where you will keep the kernel. That

Unless he has some need to compile every kernel that was released since
day one, there's absolutely no need to have a 100MB /boot partition.
10MB is fairly sizable, and could easily hold 10-15 kernels.

is

> if you want to boot regularly from HDD using lilo. This is limitation of
> BIOS, it cannot boot from higher then 1024 cylinder. You can get around
> that, but in this case you will be forced to use boot disk. You may set your
> BIOS to boot a:,c:,smth in sequence and then boot into NT just regularly and
> into linux after you insert floppy (just insert and hit power). You can find
> instructions in bootdisk HOWTO probably.

> > I have a computer with a 30 GB hard drive. The drive is partitioned
> > into three sections, each roughly 9 GM in size. On the first and second
> > partition I have Windows NT and 98 installed respectively (for work
> > purposes *smile*). I wish to install Linux (either RedHat or Debian) on
> > the last partition.

> > Can I install Linux on the last section of a 30 GB drive? Will Linux
> > operate and function normally?

> > My reason for asking this question is that with Windows NT during
> > boot-up the Kernel cannot access anything on the primary drive after the
> > first 2 GB address space -- this is also critical for the Blue Screen of
> > Death and Core Memory Dumps, etc. I guess this is due to the limitation
> > of a 16 bit address operating system???

> > I would appreciate it if you could, in addition replying the the News
> > group, email me your responses also, please. I am working at a client
> > site where I do not have readily access to the Internet, USENET, etc.

by **Karel Venke** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

If you have Windows 98, you can place a menu in the config.sys referring to
eg. windows and another entry to linux and boot in this case with loadlin
before you load any drivers and so on. Then you do not have to bother with
this 1024 cylinder limit. I use this for quite some time now. You can even
place a copy command in your config.sys so that you allways boot
automatically the last system you ran. Of course, if you have other
bootloaders this might interfere because then you might first need to select
Windows 98. (Eg. as far as I know, you can not boot Windows NT from within
Windows 98 as you can Linux)

by **Andrew Scut** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Actually I've just seen a new release of Lilo that claims to get round the
1024 limit in one of the other Linux groups.....
Scutty

Quote:> If you have Windows 98, you can place a menu in the config.sys referring
to
> eg. windows and another entry to linux and boot in this case with loadlin
> before you load any drivers and so on. Then you do not have to bother with
> this 1024 cylinder limit. I use this for quite some time now. You can even
> place a copy command in your config.sys so that you allways boot
> automatically the last system you ran. Of course, if you have other
> bootloaders this might interfere because then you might first need to
select
> Windows 98. (Eg. as far as I know, you can not boot Windows NT from within
> Windows 98 as you can Linux)

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