Partition Sizes

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Partition Sizes
started by: Thanatos

Posted by Thanatos on Aug. 21 2004,19:36

OK, How should I partition a 120G HD keeping Win98SE on C:, linux on second drive, third drive for WinXP & fourth as a drive to use with all 3 OSs? I have a second older drive, for safe storage, that is drive D:. C: shows as hda1 & hda2, D: shows as hda3 & hda4. I have everything backed up on the D: drive, so I can totally redo C: without lose of anything. Thanks for the help.

Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 23 2004,21:47

Win98 give 20 gig,
DSL give 1 gig max (you only need around 300 meg without dsl extensions)
rest for XP

But its really up to you man

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by uncleed on Aug. 26 2004,01:20

I have 4 different OSs on one 80GB hard drive in which Knoppix v.3.4 is the main multi-booter. With respect to your plan here is mine:
Partitioned and formatted with (above) Knoppix "qtparted" (unless you want to spend hours doing it with Partition Magic)
System: Mobo-Shuttle AK31; CPU-AMD XP2400+ Hard Drive:
Seagate 80GB ATA100 @7200rpm Jumper:CSEL (in removable tray).
Type OS File Sys Allocated
(P) hda1-Partition C: Windows98(FE), fat32, 1460mbs
(P) hda2 Knoppix 3.4 ext3 9770mbs
(P) hda3 Slax ext2 9770mbs
hda4-[Extended partition for following fat32s]
hda5 Small Damn 0.7.1 ext2 4300mbs
hda6 Linux Swap swap 525mbs
hda7-Partition D: Bigapps fat32 9993mbs
hda8-Partition E: Audvid fat32 13000mbs
hda9-Partition F: Inet fat32 15398mbs
hda10-Reserved reiserfs 12650mbs
(P)= stands for Primary partition
Surprisingly Knoppix (Mother of most of these Linuxs) has no trouble booting even with Slax aboard.
ec.
If you want I can show you my etc/lilo.conf.

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Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 26 2004,16:51

Quote (uncleed @ Aug. 25 2004,21:20)

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehe sheesh

Good luck mirroring that monster hehe...

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by uncleed on Aug. 27 2004,01:18

Damn Small and NO damn RAID. I heard too many stories about some people losing data to that. My first experience with it on another Linux was it stated "You are going to lose data" (or something like that). No thanks!
Instead I have gone from Norton Ghost to Linux program called Partition Image and 2 other simple utilities in Backup routines. Of course you know that Linux can not only read and write to file systems such as ext2, ext3, reiserfs and a couple of more but to fat16 and fat32 file systems as well. TAKE THAT MS anti-trust Kings!
The 2 simple routines I mentioned are master boot record (MBR) and partition table (sfdisk) backups. These are 1 line commands that a root user would use and they go something like this:
"dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512"
The above is MBR backup of a Hard drive on primary master IDE connector. To restore would go like this:
"dd if=backup-hda.mbr of=/dev/hda"
To backup partition table looks like this:
"sfdisk -d /dev/hda>backup-hda.sf"
To restore looks like this:
"sfdisk /dev/hda<backup-hda.sf"
Cant be easier. Both files "backup-hda.mbr" and "backup-hda.sf" are normally saved to root directory so you must either copy to floppy, zip, Syquest or better yet another hard drive. Both of these utilities have saved me at least 3 times !
So you see mirroring is not the hard part--its installing OSs to the Hard Drive !!!
Now all I have to do is figure out why DSL 0.7.3 says it cant find a Linux partition and fails installation (no problem with 0.7.1).
ec.

Posted by uncleed on Sep. 09 2004,00:35

I rearranged Oss.
Damn Small 0.7.3 is now on hda3
Added Morphix to hda5
Split old hda10 into 2 partitions.
Slax is now on hda10
added Feather 0.5.7 to hda11.
Finally got DSL installed and booted ok. You wont believe
what I had to do to get it going.
This is a total of 6 OSs. All are in contention for my "alternate
OS". Only Feather was the one that was fastest to install
and get everything right!
ec.