<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Installation Options</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux + Windows 95 mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="introduction.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="What's Next" HREF="whatsnext.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux + Windows 95 mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="introduction.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="whatsnext.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="OPTIONS" >2. Installation Options</A ></H1 ><P >Linux and Windows 95™ can get along quite well on the same hard disk. You can also install Linux onto a separate hard disk on the same machine. If you have the money to spare to get a second hard disk, go ahead and do that. Although it is safe and reliable to run Windows 95™ and Linux on the same hard disk, it is safer to have a second disk. Since I am a poor student (and so are most of the people I know), we are stuck with one large disk.</P ><P >Your hard disk may look like this:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > +--------------------------------- C: | 800M.... 4.2 Gig? | +---------------------------------</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Windows 95™, MS-Office™, Qmodem Pro™, and whatever DOS/Windows software you have only take up around 800M + Swap (this is a big, sarcastic assumption)! You probably do not want to lose all the software you've spent a lot of time configuring and installing, so you don't want to delete this partition and start all over again.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN48" >2.1. I Have This Partition I Want to Spare!</A ></H2 ><P >Don't lose hope. There is a program called <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >FIPS</SPAN >, which can re-partition your hard disk without destroying data. HOWEVER, make sure before you use it, that you defrag your hard disk (with the optimum defrag method). Use the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >defrag </SPAN >that came with Windows 95™, and use it in the GUI--otherwise you will loose your long file names. After you have run <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >defrag</SPAN >, run <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >FIPS</SPAN > and make your disk look something like the following:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > +------------------------------------- C: | This is your FAT/VFAT/Win95 partition 800M | +------------------------------------ ??? | This is empty space. | +----------------------------------</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ><SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >FIPS</SPAN > can be found at your favorite Linux FTP sites (<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu" TARGET="_top" >http://sunsite.unc.edu,</A > <A HREF="http://tsx-11.mit.edu" TARGET="_top" >http://tsx-11.mit.edu</A >,<A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com" TARGET="_top" > ftp.redhat.com</A >) usually in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/pub/utils/msdos</TT > directory. If you have a CD for Linux, there is usually a <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >\utils\msdos</TT > or <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >\utils</TT > directory that has <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >FIPS</SPAN > in it as well.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="CYLINDER" >2.2. What Is This 528M 1024th Cylinder Stuff?</A ></H2 ><P >What exactly is the 1024th cylinder? Simply put, it is where IDE ends and EIDE begins--that's the 528M "mark" on your hard disk. Some machines used to have problems reading hard disks larger than 528M. Sometimes, those machines wouldn't let you boot another OS from a partition that started after the 1024th cylinder. Most machines no longer have this limitation. (This used to be a BIG deal.)</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="introduction.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="whatsnext.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >What's Next</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >