From: Ron Daisy (eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il)
Date: 05/29/92


From: eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ron Daisy)
Subject: Interaction between the DOS and Linux partition - a problem.
Date: 29 May 1992 10:51:13 GMT

I installed Linux on a 80Mb HD on a part of about 20Mb.
(The partition was 60M for DOS and 20M for Linux)
When I loaded DOS and type dir, I saw that there is about 80Mb
free space on the HD. (There was no program installed on the DOS
part at that time)
When I added some stuff to the DOS part (about 60Mb stuff)
and later try to load Linux I have got "kernel panic".
My question is:

Is there interaction between the two parts of the partitioned
HD?

Why do DOS "see" ~80Mb free space even if its part is about 60Mb?

What can I do to prevent DOS to invade to the Linux part?

(My machine is 386 dx 40MHz )

Wating for an answer...
Thanks a lote.