From: dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) Subject: Re: SLS Installation Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:55:45 GMT
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.
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