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Fat32, ext2, and dual boot

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PalmettoTiger

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I'm going to take the plunge into the Linux world soon, but I won't be able to leave the "friendly" confines of win98 just yet. I'll be working with a 40 GB drive; if I lay down a 2 GB FAT32 partition for win98, a 2 GB ext2 for Linux, a 10 GB FAT32 for Windows programs, and format the rest FAT32 for data storage (mp3's, porn, etc that I want to be accessible to both OSes), will the last partition be accessible by my Linux programs?

Hmm... kinda unclear... basically I'm asking:
a) what is the max beginning point and endpoint of a bootable Linux partiton?
b) can Linux read FAT32 data no matter where it falls on the drive?

thanks for helping out a pre-newbie.
 
You can't have bootable code beyond the first 1024 cylinders of your hard disk. Thus, where the line is depends on your drive's geometry. Check the no.. of cylinders in your drive.

Anyway, with linux, you can simply have a 20MB /boot ext2 partition before the red line. Your remaining linux partitions can be anywhere. Also, the new lilo can reach beyond the first 1024 cylinders as well, and this will no longer be too much of an issue.

Best of Lucks
ciao
-khorgath
 
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