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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:38:58 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> > > How have other basiclinux users ended up partitioning their drives and 
> > > what sorts of operating systems do they have on them?  Would it be 
> > > better 
> 
> Ron wrote:> 
> >    I have installed two new HD on separate machines, one 20 GB and one 40 
> > GB.
> > Both machines run MSDOS 6.20 as their main OS.
> 
> I heard 6.20 was better than 6.22 but I forget why.  Why?
 
    I have no idea if it is or if it isn't.  I only have MSDOS 5.0 and 6.20 
to look at.
 
> >    For both, I used fdisk, from a BL2 RAM boot, to partition into 4
> > separate primary partitions. 2 and 3 on each HD were 2 GB DOS
> > partitions, my greatest need, and 2 and 1 were set to Native Linux.
> 
> Did you mean 4 and 3 were DOS?
> What is the rule about something booting from the first 8 MB?

   3 DOS (2 GB) partitions on one of the HD, and 2 DOS (2 GB) partitions on 
the other HD in the other machine.
 
    Don't know anything about first 8 MB.

> >    The DOS partitions needed Nortons Disk Doctor to setup properly.  
> > After that, I simply installed the Linux distros I wanted into the
> > partitions I had set aside for them.
> 
> What did you use Disk Doctor for that fdisk could not do?

   I had to format the new DOS partitions, and even then they failed Norton's 
Disk Doctor check, so I let NDD fix them.

>  Which linux 
> distros do you use and how much space do they occupy? 

   Machine 1:  BL2.1 has 32 GB to play in.

   Machine 2:  BL2.1 has 5 GB, and Peanut Linux (RedHat based) has 10 GB.

> Do you use more 
> than one and if so why?
 
    Peanut was recommended by a techie friend I trust.
It is the very latest (as of 6 months ago) based on a RedHat distro.
I am not real happy with it because although it is able to run a lot of 
multimedia
stuff that BL2 doesn't, there is something not quite right about the 
X-windows setup and
I have yet to find the problem(s). 

   It will probably turn out to be that I am not using enough gun, so to 
speak - 
I have 64 MB RAM on an AMD K6 450 MHz machine.
   
Regards,
         Ron 
 
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Ron Clarke 
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