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Re: [Plug] Partitioning advice
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With dos fdisk you can't set the active (bootable) partition as anything
but the first partition on the first drive. Though you can install
Windows anywhere you want, I've seen configurations in which they had a
small partition on the first drive, which simply contains command.com,
autoexec.bat, config.sys, msdos.sys, io.sys and all that other crap.
And then Windows98 on a second drive.
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Michelle Weber
umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Bill Jonas wrote:
> My fiancee is getting me a new hard drive for Christmas (I get to pick it
> out, it's not purchased yet; she gave me a little heart-shaped box with a
> slip of wrapping paper inside with tissue paper around it that said, "A new
> hard drive!" I told her, "You sure know how to make a geek happy! :)").
> What are some opinions on the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus family (7200 rpm, 2048k
> cache)? The drive will be ~20 gigs (maybe 27), and I was planning to set it
> up as hda, move the 2 gig drive to hdc or hdd (Which should I do? Master or
> slave on the second channel with the CD-ROM drive?) to play my mp3s from so
> they don't skip when stuff loads from the disk. :) I was thinking about
> setting up hda1 as 10 or 20 megs mounted at /boot, hda2 for Win98, hda3 for
> /, and hda4 for swap, but I've heard that 98 whines if it's not on the first
> primary partition. Can anyone comment on this? Any suggestions? Comments,
> suggestions (except for "Get SCSI!", as it's too expensive), and/or
> clarifications are appreciated. If anybody suggests GRUB, please include
> some info on it, or where to find more info.
>
> Thanks all,
> Bill
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