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<body>He's referring to the 1024 issue.<br><br>Rado:<br>The partition setup you're talking about looks fine. Depending on the distro, I think (Haven't used as many as I'd like) it should configure LILO correctly for you if you install to the MBR. It usually adds the old boot record as "dos" in the lilo.conf file. I know Red Hat does this for sure, can't say for sure about the others.<br>Oh, yeah. Install Windows <em class=txt_slash>/first/</em>. Otherwise, you gotta rewrite the MBR.<br><br>Vincent wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><pre>
Rado Bonk wrote:
>
> Hi Linux users,
> I am going to install Linux on my friend's computer. He has 12 GB HDD and
> woul like to have Linux and W98 at this HDD. How would you partition this
> HDD to avoid '8GB' problems with Linux?
> 6GB for W98 and 6GB for Linux is fine. I would like to use LILO as boot
> manager. Ihave instaled Linux and WNT a couple of times, but not on disk
> bigger than 8GB.
> Thanks,
>
> -Rado
>
> ---
Win98 nor any current distro of Linux have any problems with partitions
over 8GB.
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