Setting up a duel boot system?

Jason unleet at qwest.net
Tue Oct 30 03:37:48 EST 2001


Enabling large disk support has no negative effect on your linux installation.

When MS fdisk refers to other opertating systems they mean DOS, Win3.1, 
NT3.51 etc...

> Hello list, Here is what I need to do.  I have two drives here.  One is a
> 20Gb/7200rpm and the second is a 40GB/5400 RPM.  I want to set up Linux and
> Windows on the first drive and use my second for data storage.  .  When I
> use the windows Fdisk command to create the Windows partition I get asked
> If I want large disk support.  Fdisk gives me a message stating something
> to the effect If I enable this no other operating system will be able to
> use the drive.  I know that is not quite true but Fdisk also goes on to
> tell me if I disable large disk support Windows will only support
> partitions up to 2GB.  Can I disable the large disk support and create a
> partition that's larger than two GB?




More information about the Speakup mailing list