[Gllug] spoke too soon (Knoppix)

[Axel Segebrecht]

On 25/1/03 23:39, "Chris Bell" <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat 25 Jan, North London John wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I had a day of using knoppix, before somehow or other the hard
>> drive partitions got corrupted.
>> 
>> Has anyone else had such a problem?
>> 
>> I'm thinking that the cause of my problems is Windows98 - it doesn't
>> seem to take kindly to having to budge up and share a hd.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of any good websites with info on getting win98 &
>> linux co-habiting?
> 
>  There is no problem normally, given adequate space for a standard Linux
> installation plus a swap partition. If Knoppix is run directly from the CD,
> it will normally look for some space anywhere on the disc for a temporary
> swap file. If you have tried to transfer it to a new partition on the hard
> disc it will probably expect to find a standard Linux swap partition at
> least twice the size of the computer RAM, perhaps more.
>  I prefer to put Linux on a second hard disc as I can then unplug the
> Linux disc if neccessary when I have problems with M$.

Yeah, I've got Knoppix/Debian running on it's own hdd and have W2K *cough*
on the other. Best way to work as it's the least troublesome for Windoze
(IMHO anyway).

Axel 


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