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>3.2. Prerequisites - BIOS, Boot Options, Partitioning</H1
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>3.2.1. BIOS</H2
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> When starting a fresh installation you should try with standard
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BIOS options. If something doesn't work you should try
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to modify BIOS options. For example a well known trouble maker
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is the Plug-and-Play - PnP option (which comes with different names).
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>3.2.2. Boot Options</H2
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> There are many boot options, which have effects on the behavior
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of laptops, e.g. <B
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>apm=on|off</B
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> and <B
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>BootPrompt-HOWTO</A
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and the Kernel documentation in
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>3.2.3. Partitioning</H2
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> Partitioning can be done in a very sophisticated way. Currently I have
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only some first thoughts. I assume that with laptops there are still
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some reasons (e.g. updating the firmware of <SPAN
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cards and BIOS) to share Linux and Windows9x/NT. Depending on your needs
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and the features of your laptop you could create the following
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partitions:
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> BIOS, some current BIOSes use a separate partition, for instance COMPAQ
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notebooks
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> suspend to disk, some laptops support this feature
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> swap space Linux
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> swap space Windows9x/NT
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> Linux base
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> Linux <TT
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> for personal data (please consider an
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encrypted partition for security reasons, for details about encryption
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see the according chapter below)
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> common data between Linux and Windows9x/NT
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> small (~32MB) boot partition for yaBoot (Linux/PPC boot loader), in HFS
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<EM
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>MacOS Standard</EM
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> format.
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> Note this chapter isn't exhausting yet. Please read the appropriate HOWTOs
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first, e.g. the
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