[olug] multiple OS's On 2 disks

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Great !!!! thanks!!!!!
>
> This is how my system is setup now .... maybe it's wrong and you could
> suggest something else too
>
> /hda            4 G
> /hda1                        Windows 98 ........ the whole drive
>
>
> /hdc              30  G
> /hdc1            0 - 3735  G   28,6 G     My multiple linux drive
> Extended
> /hdc5            0 - 2         23.5 M        Linux
> RedHat  /boot
> /hdc6            1024 - 2043    7.8 G        Linux                  RedHat
> /
> /hdc7            2044 - 2056    101.9 M     Linux                Swap
> /hdc8               2057 - 3076    7.8 G         Linux                SUSE /
> /hdc9            3 - 5                  23.5 M        Linux
> SUSE  /boot
>
> hdc1 is extnded and hdc5 6 7 8 9 are all logical drives .

Let's make sure I have this straight:

Win98 on /dev/hda1
RedHat /boot on /dev/hdc5
SuSE /boot on /dev/hdc9

> do i even need the /boot partitions?  one swap seems to work well.

Sometimes I like to have a separate partition for /boot, even though on
most (all? but you never know) modern computers are able to recognize the
entire HD.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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