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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:05:44 -0700
From:	SYNass i-lists <i-lists@synass.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Preparing new HDD for (MORE than ) eCS -- boot

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Hi SCOUGians
May I drop in here ?

I am in midst of preparing for a new installation on my notebook and
would like your opinions and suggestions !

The notebook already has WIN XP Pro installed !

Now I want to prepare an interesting partitioning to add eCS resp OS/2
and a Linux (Ubuntu) !!

My present intention looks like following:

1. first primary C: NTFS / Windows XP Pro (shrinked fm full HDD to 30GB)
2. BM / eCS 2.0
3. second primary C: HPFS / eCS or OS/2 Warp (2GB)
4. logical D: FAT32 / Data exchanges between the 3 OS's
5. logical E: HPFS / Applications for eCS or OS/2
6. logical F: HPFS / Files (User data)
7. &ff ext 3 & swap partitions for Linux

How does this look the expert SCOUGians ?

2 more questions are regarding Linux:

a) What partitioning is better than a single ext3+swap configuration ?
b1) What about partitioning the whole HDD w/eCS 2.0 Maintenance LVM ??
b2) Shall I empty the whole HDD and do a complete LVM partitioning ???

Your advice and recommendations are hot awaited here
at the jungle border in Malaysia ;-)
Cheers, svobi

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:57 -0700, Steven Levine wrote:
> In <4722E9F6.9040208@gmail.com>, on 10/27/07
> at 12:35 AM, Tom Brown said:
>
> Hi,
>
> >BM should go at
> >the beginning or end of a drive so as not to fragment the free space
> >used for the logical volume container.
>
> It can safely go after any primary partition. This is sometimes useful
> when installing a non-LBA aware version of OS/2 on a system that is
> already using the first primary for some flavor of Windows.
>
> The first primary could be moved to make space for Boot Manager, but old
> versions of PM did not resize the resulting parition to account for the
> fact that the 1st primary is short one sector to accomodate the MBR. This
> resulted in various forms of pain.
>
> On an LBA aware system such as MCP or eCS, the end of the drive is
> probably the best place for BM.
>
> Steven
>

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