[jharrison]

I'd like to know of any of you have a "best" strategy for installing Win98SE and Linux together on a dual boot system.

I had them installed together and existing peacefully but there were some things that I wanted to try to change. I had Win98SE on a C: primary partition of 2 gigs (FAT), Linux on a 2.5 gig partition (I used disk druid to create the partition and it made it a primary, too, which I did not like), the Linux swap on 200 MB partition and then a huge FAT32 data partition for all Win98SE programs/data to be stored on.

I decided I wanted to try to change the scheme so I re-cloned my drive with my perfect 98SE image, resized the partitions using Partition Magic 5 and made the 98SE parition 8 gigs (FAT32), a Linux logical partition of 2.8 gigs and a swap partition of 200 MB. When I went to install Linux I got the dreaded 1024 cylinder error so Linux wouldn't boot using LILO in the MBR. I tried a few other things like resizing the 98SE partition to 2 gigs (which didn't work), leaving it at 2 gigs and converting to FAT (which didn't work), and now here I am not quite knowing what to do.

I suppose if I have to start all over and have the drive like it was before I'll go that route but I'd like any other options if possible. I'd like Linux in the front of the drive and 98SE taking up the remainder but I don't know if that's possible or how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jharrison]

Also, is there a limit to the size of the first primary partition that Linux can install LILO to? If I choose to install it to the MBR does it take into account partition size? I tried installing Linux in a few different environments with the same result being that I couldn't boot to it without the floppy it created during installation. I tried it with a 8 gig FAT32 Primary partition (W98SE), a 2 gig FA32 Primary partition (W98SE), and a 2 gig FAT Primary partition (W98SE), and it didn't work in any of these cases. Each time I was attempting to install Linux on a logical partition 2.8 gigs in size with a swap partition of 200 MB. The whole 1024 cylinder thing confuses me. Any help understanding that would be great.

[MikeV]

this is a lil late, but may be helpful to others.

With the new version of LILO, partitions don't really matter anymore anyway. Partition as you please.

I, personally, always install LILO to the superblock instead of the MBR anyway, so I don't have the 1024 problem and I'm on the old version.

-M

[Macguyver72]

You should look into XOSL at http://www.xosl.org

It's a boot loader that I find hard to live without, and it allows a great amount of configuration.