Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:35:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > . > I know that many recommend using multiple partitions. But if you have > no idea about how large /usr, /home, need to be it's hard to guess how > many partitions and how large each should be. You hit the spot! My manner is

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Don't you partitioned your HD on a computer, and move >it to another? >(or activated LBA on one and not on the other?) No, I partitioned using the Stormix linux installer, then poped the debian CD into the SAME computer and re-booted. I just tried different linux distro's till I found one that

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:30:50PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor > which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g ^ > or whatever came with sli

17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g or whatever came with slink) reports 1024 c, 255 h, 63 s (which adds up to 8.4gb). I was able to partition the drive using the installer from stormix (which