Once again.
I am still beating myself up with this one. I need to get this
server running today!
This is a stupid question, but I can't for my life remember
the answer. Is the Linux file system FAT16 or FAT32
compatible?
Thanks, you all, your support is really valuable.
Beth;-}
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Arnoldy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 20, 1998 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>Robert Hart wrote:
>
>> Provided you put the kernel and lilo below cylinger 1024 you will be
>> fine (the best way to guarantee that is to create a 50MB root
>> partition in that area and have separate /usr /var and /home
>> partitions).
>>
>> Linux will happily cope with the large disk - just that the BIOS can't
>> boot beyond cylinder 1023.
>
>Is it true what I've heard, though, that if you are for instance running
>EZ-BIOS (Maxtor's bios extension, to get around the 512M limit for
>larger
>disks), it loads itself into the MBR and then when LILO comes around to
>putting itself in the MBR, it gags because EZ-BIOS is there?
>
>I've been told that no matter how hard I work to avoid the 1023cylander
>problem
>as long as EZ-BIOS is in MBR, I will not get LILO to work. Is this true?
>
>
>-Peter
>
>
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