[LUAU] a little reorganizing....

[Griffith Feeney]

Linux Journal July 1996 Issue 27 has an article by Michael K. Johnson that
suggests installing the lilo bootloader on your linux partition and then
making this partition active. The advantage of this is that it's easy to
get your dual boot setup back when (as will eventually happen) you have to
reinstall windows: you just use the dos fdisk to make the linux partition
active and reboot. I've had this setup for some time now. I have a small
linux / partition and swap partition on hda along with win95, most of linux
on a separate drive. My lilo.conf looks like this:

boot=/dev/hda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
other=/dev/hda1
        label=win95
        table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hda3
	read-only
#other=/dev/hda4
#	label=dos
#	table=/dev/hda

At 06:11 PM 5/11/99 -1000, you wrote:
>Aloha,
>
>I plan on buying a new harddrive to dedicate just to linux.  My question is
>to parts:
>
>1) Since I'll be re-installing from scratch (6.0 CD on the way) should I do
>a format /mbr on my disk now to get rid of lilo temporarily?
>
>2) Since I used fips to repartition my current drive so linux would fit,
>can I now just fdisk that partition and reformat it for FAT32 without
>losing anything in my primary Win95 partition?
>
>Thanks,
>
>kevin
>
>
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