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- From: drg50@Frobozz.COM (Dave Gavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS Installation
- Message-ID: <033602AV34LT01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:13:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.115823.3929@mic.ucla.edu> <C1JH8y.L70@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
- Reply-To: drg50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Dave Gavin)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Boston MA
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- In article <C1JH8y.L70@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.115823.3929@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
- >>
- >>I am a bit confused about the SLS (linux) installation. I am getting a
- >>laptop, already formatted for DOS, and I want to make linux my second
- >>partition. I would have thought I should:
- >>
- >> [1] backup the DOS volume
- >> [2] repartition the hard disk using DOS's fdisk utility for
- >> 2 volumes. I can then handle partition 1 with standard
- >> DOS tools.
- >> [3] build a Linus file-system, probably booting from SLS disk
- >> a1 and a2, and using mkfs.
- >>
- >>Instead, SLS asks me to use its own fdisk utility. I am concerned
- >>whether this is identical to using the DOS fdisk utility. Is it?
- >
- >The DOS documentation says to use the DOS-Fdisk to create/manipulate
- >DOS partitions. For other OS's, it tells you to use whatever is appropriate
- >to that OS. In the case of Linux, it happens to be Linux's "fdisk".
- >
- >I suppose you will have to use DOS fdisk to give x% of your disk to DOS
- >then go into Linux and use it to give the remainder to Linux.
- >--
- > Francisco X DeJesus ----- S A I C ----- dejesus@chinalake.navy.mil
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > * disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are mine. Typos and errors are yours *
- > "Duck Season!" "Rabbit Season!" "...rabbit season." "It's Duck Season! SHOOT!"
-
- You need the linux fdisk to set the partition id flag for Linux/Minix.
- DOS will set up the partitions for you, but will flag them for DOS.
- You will need to change your Linux partition flags to 81/82/83, depending
- on your usage. Here's what mine looks like: (I just love cut 'n paste! ;-) )
-
- Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 38 sectors, 683 cylinders
- Units = cylinders of 608 * 512 bytes
-
- Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
- /dev/hda3 * 1 1 270 82061 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
- /dev/hda4 271 271 682 125248 5 Extended
- /dev/hda5 271 271 464 58957 83 Linux extfs
- /dev/hda6 465 465 488 7277 82 Linux swap
- /dev/hda7 489 489 682 58957 81 Linux/MINIX
-
- Command (m for help): l
-
- 0 Empty 8 AIX 75 PC/IX b8 BSDI swap
- 1 DOS 12-bit FAT 9 AIX bootable 80 Old MINIX c7 Syrinx
- 2 XENIX root a OPUS 81 Linux/MINIX db CP/M
- 3 XENIX user 40 Venix 82 Linux swap e1 DOS access
- 4 DOS 16-bit <32M 51 Novell? 83 Linux extfs e3 DOS R/O
- 5 Extended 52 Microport 93 Amoeba f2 DOS secondary
- 6 DOS 16-bit >=32 63 GNU HURD 94 Amoeba BBT ff BBT
- 7 OS/2 HPFS 64 Novell b7 BSDI fs
-
- Command (m for help): q
-
- Hope this helps clear it up for you - I messed up my disk several times
- when I was first putting up Linux.
- Regards - Dave Gavin
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