On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote:
> debian parisc wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't
> >actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP
> >Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to ins
>From debian parisc on Wednesday, 2003-01-22 at 14:51:35 +:
> Hello,
>
> although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't
> actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP
> Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to
>
This could be an issue if your motherboard was more than say 4
or 5 years old (pre 1998 or so) and/or if you were running an older
release of Windows or Linux.
Win98 can boot from anywhere on that drive and so can Debian stable and
testing as long as the motherboard BIOS contains the INT13 extensi
Quoting debian parisc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't
> actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP
> Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to
> ensure that my wife d
debian parisc wrote:
Hello,
although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't
actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP
Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to
ensure that my wife doesn't divorce me I need to make
Hi,
Debian (and don't see why other distros can't) can boot beyond the 8GB
boundary. I have a 20GB NTFS partiton as my first, then the linux
partitions come after that (/boot, /, /home, swap).
My motherboard (Intel/Dell LX) doesn't support booting past 8GB/large
hard drives IIRC. A Promise Ult
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 19-Apr-2002 Ilia Lobsanov wrote:
> > I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my
> > linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck
> > on windlowsXP. Is there an
On 19-Apr-2002 Ilia Lobsanov wrote:
> I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my
> linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck
> on windlowsXP. Is there any way to boot into the linux partition?
>
find an install cd and boot with th
Hi Don,
With 341mb to work with, you might want to go with a 24-32mb swap partition
and leave the rest as one Linux partition. That way, you won't be wasting
space in a partition that could've been smaller if you'd only known. It will
also simplify installation.
On your first run through dselect, y
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