Re: booting in to linux.

[Rafael <raffi@ark.linwin.com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:13:57PM -0600, cbowman wrote:
> hi, ok 2 questions.  ware can i go to get  these loaders,  and how much
> space will the linux system files, and so fourth  take after it is
> installed and set-up. if I add another drive all I have is a 1 gb drive
> that I can add so if I make 2 partisiions with that it would come out to
> 500 each is this workable? thanks alot. 

You mean 500MB for each OS? That's a bit tight. Since you probably do not 
X then it's doable.

/ 48 MB
/usr 300 MB
/var 32 MB
/tmp 64 MB
swap 64 MB
/home rest of the free space

That's really small. Can't dedicate whole 1GB to Linux? Used drives over
4GB can be had for $20 these days.

The above is normal number of partitions I use and never regret it. It
makes it easy to upgrade or reinstall if necessary.

Grub is on first CD from RedHat distribution under
RedHat/RPMS/grub-0.90-11.i386.rpm

All you need to do is to run 
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/grub-0.90-11.i386.rpm

and then run /sbin/grub-install

After that you need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add or remove any 
kernel or OS.

Grub doesn't take much space, only boot sectors and a little bit in 
/boot/grub directory.

That's for RedHat distribution. Others might vary.

> charles 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Rafael wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:00:16PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > hi listers. I have a question. I am getting ready to install linux on my
> > > computer but, i need to find something to help me to choose wich os i will
> > > boot up in to . I have win95 on this computer, and am keeping it my hard
> > > drive is partisioned 3 ways 1 is for just windows junk, the secont is for
> > > dos, and the third will be for linux. I know about partision majic but,
> > > short of that is there something that i can just download from someware to
> > > use. thanks alot?  btw, the kind of linux I have I have slakeware 8.0, and
> > > braillespeek i think is the name of it. I didn't see eanything for this on
> > > the cds. thanks alot.
> > 
> > The oldest linux loader called LILO is one way to select and boot 
> > different operating systems. However, there is an alternative with more 
> > capabilities and flexibility in my experience. That alternative is grub. 
> > What's most important about it is that it doesn't matter where the kernles 
> > are. Another words, the BIOS limitation of 1024 cylinders is not limiting 
> > you to boot from partitions that reside beyond 1024th cylinder.
> > 
> > Most distributions use lilo as a default OS loader. RedHat since 7.2 
> > started to give you a choice for grub as well. There are RPM packages to 
> > install grub on most distributions and I'm sure there is a package for 
> > Debian as well.
> > 
> > One more thing, you can only install grub under Linux as far as I can 
> > tell.
> > 
> > I suggest you create more partitions than just one for Linux. You need at
> > least 2 but upgrades and backups are much nicer when Linux is installed
> > with more than 2 partitions.
> > 
> > Disk drives are cheap these days and it's a good idea to have linux on 
> > another drive so you don't need to worry about the partitions etc.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > > charles
> > > 
> > > Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rafael
> > 
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Rafael