Partitioning my ahrd drive for debian

Partitioning my ahrd drive for debian

[Jared]

I have a machine that I need to dule boot with debian and windows 2000.
My windows 2000 partition goes up to the 768 silindar with bios
translation enabaled. I have a computer with bios that currently does
not support booting over the 1023 silidner boot limit. My question is
this. I have read the debian install manual but if I do the following
I'm not sure how to tell it what partition to mount as what. I want to
have the following partition set up
Windows 2000 partition, currently taking up about 768 silinders. I want
a /boot directly after that. I want a / that contains all my programs,
user directorys and so on. I can create the partitions but how do I tell
debian to use the /boot to boot off of instead of just the /? Appreciate
this as the fedora install was a lot easyer, but I want to use debian
instead for other reasons.

Re: Partitioning my ahrd drive for debian

[Gregory Nowak]

You simply mount your boot partition as /boot, put all your boot files
into it, and point your image directives in lilo.conf to
/boot/whatever.

Greg


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:38:14PM -0500, Jared wrote:
> I have a machine that I need to dule boot with debian and windows 2000.
> My windows 2000 partition goes up to the 768 silindar with bios
> translation enabaled. I have a computer with bios that currently does
> not support booting over the 1023 silidner boot limit. My question is
> this. I have read the debian install manual but if I do the following
> I'm not sure how to tell it what partition to mount as what. I want to
> have the following partition set up
> Windows 2000 partition, currently taking up about 768 silinders. I want
> a /boot directly after that. I want a / that contains all my programs,
> user directorys and so on. I can create the partitions but how do I tell
> debian to use the /boot to boot off of instead of just the /? Appreciate
> this as the fedora install was a lot easyer, but I want to use debian
> instead for other reasons.
> 
> 
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