Two approaches for automatic partitioning in linearly-implicit Runge-K
utta methods using Krylov techniques and avoiding the explicit computa
tion of the Jacobian are considered. The first (global) approach corre
sponds to an approximation of all stiff components. In the second one
only the actually important stiff components are considered. Consisten
cy and stability results are given. Numerical tests illustrate the the
oretical investigations.