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Hello all,

I'm *somewhat* new to Linux (I dabble with it daily in my
work as an IT 'droid), I've used Unix for 4 or 5 years, but
only in a limited (ISP dial-in) capacity - so I guess there
are a lot of holes to fill in.  I'm wanting to install Linux
so that I can gain experience (and therefore marketability)
with UNIX & non-M$ OSes, as well as learning networking,
etc. a lot better.

My biggest question right now pertains to setting up RH 6.0
onto a rather large (14.4 GB) HD.  At the moment, it's
running WinDoze 98, but I need at *least* 2 other OS's on
this PC -

Win NT Server 4.0, since my bosses have required us all to
get our MCSE's; and
RedHat 6.0, as I really want to get a lot better w/ UNIX, &
out from under M$.

I'd very much like to have Open- or FreeBSD as well (the
want ads seem to show that a lot), but I'll limit my
complexity for the moment & stick with these 3.  The way
that I've allocated my HD (on paper at least) is:

A 1GB FAT-16 boot partition (I'm restoring a 700-750 MB
Ghost image onto it, so I'll need all that space);

A 2GB NTFS partition (should be *plenty* for NT, even with
SP's, option packs, scripting, etc.);

A 2GB Linux partition (included in this will be 2 swap
partitions of 127MB each - this PC has 128MB of RAM, so I'll
need about 2x that for swap space, right?);

The remainder will probably be allocated as FAT32, since I
currently do a lot of things with '98 - although I'm
definitely open to change in that regard.

I've already tried installing RH 5.1 onto this PC once - I
learned the *hard* way that the fdisk program included with
RH 5.1 doesn't particularly like drives > 8.4 GB. Don't
interpret that as a question, I'm currently trolling through
the DejaNews archives looking to see if maybe I can RTFM &
get the answer on my own...  (The original intent was to get
3 primary partitions & 1 extended.)

Anyway, if you guys can give me some advice regarding how to
allocate/set up this HD (before I fdisk it), I'd really
appreciate it.  (Sorry this got so long.)

Thanks for any guidance you can provide,

DMQ (You can answer directly by pulling the 'no_uce.' from
the reply address.)
"There's a fine line between courage and foolhardiness.  Too
bad it's not a fence."

Go into the 'expert' menu of Linux fdisk and change the
number of cylinders to the correct value for your drive
(it ought to be somewhere around 1780).  Then return
to the main menu and create your partitions.

Quote:>Hello all,

>I'm *somewhat* new to Linux (I dabble with it daily in my
>work as an IT 'droid), I've used Unix for 4 or 5 years, but
>only in a limited (ISP dial-in) capacity - so I guess there
>are a lot of holes to fill in.  I'm wanting to install Linux
>so that I can gain experience (and therefore marketability)
>with UNIX & non-M$ OSes, as well as learning networking,
>etc. a lot better.

>My biggest question right now pertains to setting up RH 6.0
>onto a rather large (14.4 GB) HD.  At the moment, it's
>running WinDoze 98, but I need at *least* 2 other OS's on
>this PC -

>Win NT Server 4.0, since my bosses have required us all to
>get our MCSE's; and
>RedHat 6.0, as I really want to get a lot better w/ UNIX, &
>out from under M$.

>I'd very much like to have Open- or FreeBSD as well (the
>want ads seem to show that a lot), but I'll limit my
>complexity for the moment & stick with these 3.  The way
>that I've allocated my HD (on paper at least) is:

>A 1GB FAT-16 boot partition (I'm restoring a 700-750 MB
>Ghost image onto it, so I'll need all that space);

>A 2GB NTFS partition (should be *plenty* for NT, even with
>SP's, option packs, scripting, etc.);

>A 2GB Linux partition (included in this will be 2 swap
>partitions of 127MB each - this PC has 128MB of RAM, so I'll
>need about 2x that for swap space, right?);

>The remainder will probably be allocated as FAT32, since I
>currently do a lot of things with '98 - although I'm
>definitely open to change in that regard.

>I've already tried installing RH 5.1 onto this PC once - I
>learned the *hard* way that the fdisk program included with
>RH 5.1 doesn't particularly like drives > 8.4 GB. Don't
>interpret that as a question, I'm currently trolling through
>the DejaNews archives looking to see if maybe I can RTFM &
>get the answer on my own...  (The original intent was to get
>3 primary partitions & 1 extended.)

>Anyway, if you guys can give me some advice regarding how to
>allocate/set up this HD (before I fdisk it), I'd really
>appreciate it.  (Sorry this got so long.)

>Thanks for any guidance you can provide,

>DMQ (You can answer directly by pulling the 'no_uce.' from
>the reply address.)
>"There's a fine line between courage and foolhardiness.  Too
>bad it's not a fence."

Hi Charles,

*Thanks* for the quick reply to that part of it.  I guess I
need to pop the case & get the info (cyl/hds/tracks) off the
HD itself, since booting into the BIOS setup doesn't appear
to display that info...

To address the other side of it, does anyone have any
suggestions on how to best allocate the space on the HD?

Thanks again,

DMQ (You can answer directly by pulling the 'no_uce.' from
the reply address.)
"There's a fine line between courage and foolhardiness.  Too
bad it's not a fence."