Two disks (Re: [LI] Partition Problem)

["Anand Raman" <anandram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys
Will i face some problems if i install a second hdd for linux . I am thinking of
a windows hdd and a linux hdd as a slave
Are there any issues which need to be addressed for this
Thanx
Anand

"Nagarjuna G." wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Dina-natha Das wrote:
>
> ->> I have a 4.3GB HDD. I want to have 2GB of Windoze95 in
> ->> my first partition and rest as LINUX. Windoze95 got
> ->> installed fine. But when I install linux, in the end
> ->> of the installation it gives
> ->>       "Unable to load in the BOOT LOader ......."
> ->>
> ->> But when I make a 500MB partition and load windoze it
> ->> works out fine. Someone said that it has something to
> ->> do with 1023 sectors/cylinders.
> ->>
> ->> How can I overcome my problem??
> ->
> ->My experience is that Linux cannot be installed on a partition bigger than
> ->around 3.6GB due to 1023 cylinders limitation. In my case I installed win98
> ->on a primary partition and I made 3.6GB logical partition on extended
> ->partition and I left it unformatted. Later when I was installing Linux Red
> ->Hat 6.0 I just made root and swap partitions on the unformatted 3.6GB
> ->partition that that was it.
>
> Best thing to do in such cases is to keep a small partition of linux for
> /boot, of say 15MB within the 1024 cylinders limit, and install the rest of
> the partitions anywhere else.  This works fine.
>
> Nagarjuna
>
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