Working Well Means Running it All
A Primer on Installing and Running Multiple Operating
Systems
Disks - Storage Devices
Geometry
The Disk hardware
Firmware assumptions
Your BIOS
Disk Extenders - software that fools your BIOS
Filesystems and Partitions
- Generic (FAT)
- OS native systems (extended FAT, HPFS, NTFS, ext2, etc.)
- Linux supports several different file systems
FDISK
- Linux
- MS-DOS
- Window NT - Disk Administrator
Bootstrap loading -- starting an OS
- "Normal" single OS boot
- LILO - the LInux LOader
- The NT loader
- IBM Boot Manager
- System Commander
Managing Partitions
- Delete, Redefine, and Reload (DRR)
- Dynamic handling of partitions
- Resizing - Linux utility: FIPS
- Partition Magic
OS Requirements
- Anchoring and Relocation
- Control of the Boot Record
Q&A session
