Re: Apologies WAS: [tlug] new computer configuration

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

B0Ti wrote:
> Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> 
> He starts the thread asking:
> 
>>nitin kakkar wrote:
> 
> "He wants  Linux (RH 7.2), Win 98 and capability to have more one os like
> Sun Os, Free BSB or XP (just to play around for a while,
> he wants to change this from time to time )"
> 
> Later on Scott Robbins writes:
> "Both of these will probably have to be primary partitions,
> I haven't installed either on a multiboot box in awhile ...."
> 
> Then in the email to which I replied as "A is wasted" he writes:
> "2) The four primary partitions seems to be
>       A) /boot ext3  for linux boots
>       B)  Fat32 for windows
>       C)  Fat32  : Data shared between Windows & linux
>       D)  ext3 for linux /"

I still do not see where the requirement that everything fit into the
four allowed primary partitions comes in. Pardon me if I am being dense.
AFAIK, Linux will boot off a secondary partition (at least, in GRUB, I
am pretty sure that it will).

>>I asked this because, in general, it is good to make
> 
> 
> This wasn't a general case.
> Now I'm off to bed and it seems to me that you need some rest too, Josh.

True, but I think that you may be assuming something that the OP didn't
mean.

I can always use some rest, but I do not think my tiredness is effecting
my logic. If so, I stand corrected.


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Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.