Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Why set up DOS? Was: Wont boot..help

 

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Martin Warren
<elephant_range@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Sorry, Yvonne.  Your Ubuntu expert gave you expert info on Ubuntu, but wasn't very farsighted, in my opinion.  They neglected to advise you to set up a 200MB DOS partition as hda1 if you're doing a multi-boot.  Dinosaur-Land has saved my proverbial ass on more than one occasion.
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I'm curious how giving a partition to DOS provides an advantage over
another linux install or a live cd? Primary partitions are fairly
valuable if you are multibooting with windows, right? Thanks for any
insight.

Cheers, ~Chris

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