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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:02:24 -0400
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Triple boot, was: Compiling opendos...easier now?
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:48:07 +0200, Christoph Hammann wrote:

> Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

>> So here's the status of The Catbox:
>> 750MB for DR-DOS 7.03;
>> 2GB for Slackware Primary Partition
>> The rest of the 3.2GB HD for Slackware swap.

> Dear Ms Geek,

> Whoa, hold on there, that's way too much swap, 450 MB if I can still
> calculate. Double your RAM should be plenty. Why not use the rest for
> /home or something small like /boot.

Christoph,
 Thank you very much. I was never able to find a reccomendation for
swap partition sizing. I have Caldera's OpenLinux on a 1.2gig drive.
250mb is swap, just under 1gig is Linux Native.
I'll redo the swap down to 160mb (80mb of Ram in this Pentium 150)
 Oh, the other drive is a 5.7gig. (split into 9 partitions)
("main OS" is OpenDos v7.01)

>> I'm still using the floppy to boot but one of these days I'll get up the
>> nerve to install LILO on the HD.

 Michelle,
You really don't need "nerve" to install LILO.
It works flawlessly on my system.
Are you booting LILO on that floppy? Or are you booting to DOS on the
floppy and then running LOADLIN ?
If you _are_ booting LILO and it's working fine from the floppy, there's
no reason I can think of that it wouldn't work just as well on the HD.

It's also very easy to uninstall LILO if you want to.
Just boot from a DOS floppy, run FDISK and choose "rewrite MBR".
(LILO is removed)

 Since OpenDos FDISK saves the MBR to a file on the HD, you can
run FDISK again and choose "restore original MBR". (LILO is back).

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North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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