Dual boot

Damien Elmes resolve at repose.cx
Sun Sep 23 16:15:26 EST 2001


Wayne Vovil <kylixau at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> Hi Travis
> 
> Yes, it is necessary to partition your hadr drive.
> 
> Preferably, a partition for W98, a partition (small
> one) for linux SWAP, and at least one other partition
> for linux. You may use more than one for linux. I use
> one for swap, one for linux (all but /home), and one
> for linux (/home -  where I put all my user stuff -
> data etc that doen't need upgrading).

Actually, there is a filesystem called "UMSDOS" which can store linux
files on top of a MS-DOS filesystem, so technically it's not
necessary. He'll save himself lots of trouble if he does allocate a
seperate partition, though.

Cheers!

-- 
Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx




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