by Luiz Felipe Martin » Sun, 07 Jun 1998 04:00:00
I am going to install Linux RH 5.1 on a system that has PowerQuest's
Partition Magic. Right now, this system is running Win95 but has two 1gig
partitions that are free, so I want to put Linux on one of them. Has anyone
gone through a similar scenario?
Felipe Martins
by Bob Niels » Mon, 08 Jun 1998 04:00:00
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 22:21:49 -0400,
It should work fine. I assume the free partitions are Win95. DeleteQuote:>I am going to install Linux RH 5.1 on a system that has PowerQuest's
>Partition Magic. Right now, this system is running Win95 but has two 1gig
>partitions that are free, so I want to put Linux on one of them. Has anyone
>gone through a similar scenario?
The boot manager included with Partition Magic works nicely for choosing
which o/s to boot. Install LILO in the root sector of the partition, not
in the Master Boot Record.
Remember the 1024 cylinder limit for the location of the kernel (LBA
will hopefully handle this for you).
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by Richard Bum » Tue, 09 Jun 1998 04:00:00
1) If you already have one boot manager, you only need LILO to boot
linux, so it should be in the root sector of the partition, where your
boot manager can find it. Partition Magic can create unformatted
partitions and mark them bootable before you begin the install.
2) Partition Magic can manage the space, but it does not see inside
linux partitions. You need the linux fdisk (or equivalent) to set
these partitions to the appropriate type.
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by Todd Warne » Wed, 10 Jun 1998 04:00:00
> Felipe Martins
- Made a 1MB partition for the bootmenu, and added that.
- Second drive is my Win95 drive, and I scrunched it down to the size
desired.
- Add Win95 to the boot menu and then make the boot menu partition active.
- leave the rest unformatted.
- now, decide home much room you want for Linux. I used 64 MB swap, 100MB /
(root part.), 650MB /usr, and about 200MB for /home. As a single user of
the system, that gave me a bunch of room. NOTE: I didn't use partition magic
to set this up, I just used it to think about it. Use Linux's fdisk to set up
the rest. Unfortunately, Partition Magic will detect Linux ext2 disks, but
won't modify them. Hopefully, the next version will.
- Finally, after you install Linux, go back into Win95 and partition magic
and add Linux to the BootMenu.
If you don't want to use PM's boot menu (though I like it), Linux's Lilo is
good, if less pretty.
I hope this helped a bit. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Once you begin
using Linux, you'll never go back!
-Todd Warner
1. Partition Software - Partition Magic, Bootit, Boot Manager or Ranish Partition Manager
spake unto us, saying:
By default, Solaris and Linux will not be able to see each other, and
the Windows flavors will not be able to see either one. So your only
concern will be the visibility between NT and Win95.
If you install those two in primary partitions on the same drive, there
shouldn't be a problem with that either.
Bootit is a utility I know of but have not used.
The only "Boot Manager" I know about is the OS/2 Boot Manager (also the
same as the IBM Boot Manager included as part of Partition Magic 3.x),
and it's a nice basic boot menu, but I'm not sure it's available at all
as a separate product. I've used it for years (since 1992 I think).
Partition Magic is a glorified (and relatively powerful) fdisk utility
which I've used for quite a while. Very useful, IMhO. Newer versions
have things I'm not familiar with (I'm still using the OS/2 version of
PM 2.03).
Ranish's Partition Manager looks like a REALLY slick utility, and it's
on my list to play with. But I copped out and bought a copy of System
Commander here instead. :-)
I think I would recommend that you add System Commander to your list
above, since it allows you to selectively change primary partition
visibility (in many cases) for each individual boot menu entry.
Really, though, you probably don't need it. The only question I would
have is how to get NT's boot manager to get along with Solaris' boot
manager, and I suspect that can be done.
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4. Moving/Resizing Linux (ext2) partitions with Partition Magic: It works!
6. Using Partition Magic to partition a hardisk with Win95 pre-installed
7. Linux POV make dies with "Undef. symbol: _unix_init_povray"
8. Extended Partition Error with Partition Magic 4
9. Resize linux partition w/ Partition Magic!!
10. RE Partition Magic and ext2fs partitions
11. Linux partition invisible to Partition Magic's Boot Manager
12. fdisk can't see a partition that partition magic CAN see