Try http://www.xosl.org/ . Xosl is a boot manager that supports a large
variety of OSes. Xosl allows booting off primary, logical and extended
partitions, as well as booting off partitions beyond the 1024 cylinder limit
(which really isn't much of a limitation on most newer machines). Of course,
you can always use Lilo as well =).
Keep in mind that you can have 4 primary partitions or 3 primary with one
logical and 100's of extended partitions. IMHO, I have found that Partion
Magic works best for the partioning of hard drives -- very straightforward
and very easy to use. There is a pqmagic.exe DOS executable you can throw on
a DOS boot disk, therefore eliminating the need for Winblows.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Mikes work account [mailto:mrock@stewartsigns.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:21 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] dual boot
Can anyone point me to a comprehensive and detailed HOWTO that explicitly
tells me how to create a Linux system on a box that already has a working
'98 system?
I tried last night and could not get past the partitioning. I have 12G of
unallocated space on my drive and Disk Druid kept telling me that I did not
have enough room after two partitions. There are already two partitions on
my Compac Presario. both FAT. One for '98 and the other for the recovery
parition.
I know how to read instructions and most of what I have read thus far lack
detail. I need a 1,2,3....8,9 kind of thing.
Michael C. Rock
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