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by **Robert Sharp Gunt** » Fri, 15 Aug 1997 04:00:00

Greetings,

I recently installed Redhat ver. 4.2 as a second OS, with Win95 being
the first. I have a couple of problems to note:

1. I installed linux on my Secondary master 406 M hd, which is totally
reserved for linux (Win95 being on the Primary Master). Now when I try
to open "my computer" or anything which reads the secondary master, my
system locks up. Other than that windows appears to work fine. I do
have the OSR2 version of Win95, if that helps. Also, I was never able
to get windows to access my secondary master hd (before I installed
linux) in protected mode. Therefore, it was running in real mode.

2. Packages run really slow in X windows. I have an AMD 586 133Mhz,
32 megs ram, with four partitions on my secondary master running
linux, a 30M /, 32M swap, 294M /usr, and a 49M /home. This is what was
recommended in the installation HowTo. Is my root partition too small?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I can be reached via email at

Thanks!

Rob

by **Michael Jame** » Fri, 15 Aug 1997 04:00:00

> Greetings,

> I recently installed Redhat ver. 4.2 as a second OS, with Win95 being
> the first. I have a couple of problems to note:

> 1. I installed linux on my Secondary master 406 M hd, which is totally
> reserved for linux (Win95 being on the Primary Master). Now when I try
> to open "my computer" or anything which reads the secondary master, my
> system locks up. Other than that windows appears to work fine. I do
> have the OSR2 version of Win95, if that helps. Also, I was never able
> to get windows to access my secondary master hd (before I installed
> linux) in protected mode. Therefore, it was running in real mode.

If you made linux native partions the windows 95 will never be able to
read the drive.

Quote:> 2. Packages run really slow in X windows. I have an AMD 586 133Mhz,
> 32 megs ram, with four partitions on my secondary master running
> linux, a 30M /, 32M swap, 294M /usr, and a 49M /home. This is what was
> recommended in the installation HowTo. Is my root partition too small?

You are only using one drive so I suggest you have one large / partition
and say about 32MB swap. Multiple partitions on the one drive can cause
problems if one overflows and you want to make a file on that partition.

> Any help will be greatly appreciated. I can be reached via email at

> Thanks!

> Rob

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