by Richard Haye » Sun, 15 Feb 1998 04:00:00
hey. i'm tryin to download the LinuxPPC kernel from ftp.linuxppc.org, but
the ftp server wont respond. is there another sit to download it from?
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Richard Hayes
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by James Forsyth » Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:00:00
this last one I took off the www.linuxppc.org site. It seems to be faster
and more reliable than ftp.linuxppc.org
1. Please help a confused LINUX wannabe.
Hi Group,
I worked on a UNIX SPARC system as an engineering application programmer in
C language
a few years ago, so have some familiarity with that OS as a user, but never
as a SysAdmin.
I've got a new Gateway PC currently running Windows 98 and would like to add
LINUX as an alternative operating system. I'd be using LINUX as just a
single-user
system and would like to boot up to either LINUX or Windows as the need
arises.
I purchased Red Hat 5.1 and Partition Magic 4.0.
I'm somewhat confused as to the way I need to partition the hard drive to
support
both OSs. The hard drive is a Maxtor 91020D6, 10.2 Gb, and per specs is:
3 Disks, 6 Physical heads, 16 Logical heads, 19265 Cylinders, 63
sectors/track,
512 Bytes/sector. It appears to be set up using LBA. I initially ordered
it from
Gateway with two equal partitions which are now set up as logical DOS drives
C:
and D: and configured FAT32. I thought I'd use about half the drive for
Windows,
the other half for LINUX.
If I understand the RH 5.1 manual and what I've read on this newsgroup,
both
the Windows and LINUX boot partitions have to be below 1024 cylinders
(approx 10.2 * 1024/19265 = 542 Meg), and Windows has to come first,
so my partitioning scheme would have to be something like this:
Windows drive C: (max size about 530 Meg)
LINUX /boot/ (about 10 Meg)
The rest of Windows as drive D: (or multiple logical drives.)
The rest of LINUX in several partitions, i.e., /root/, /home/, etc.
Is this correct? (I'd really prefer to have a larger partition for Windows
drive C:, if only because the initial factory installation of Win 98 and
other
stuff occupied close to 1 Gb. )
I'm confused about the LBA and FAT32. What do I have to do about LBA for
LINUX setup? Will I be able to read or copy Windows data files (ASCII or
Graphics) from LINUX (and vice-versa) with the FAT32 setup?
Your collective advice will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
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