Yeah, this is the right idea. However, rather than make a small root partition
and then tons of others to mount in it instead just create a small partition
called "/boot". Actually, the setup debian gives you by default stores the
kernel, along with the other files lilo needs, in /boot. You'll note
Hi Robert,
Here are the partitions on my 9.1GB SCSI drive:
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 99M 19M74M 21% /
/dev/sda5 623M 332M 259M 56% /usr
/dev/sda6 144M 15K 137M 0% /tmp
/dev/sda7
Robert Goodwin wrote:
> hi there,
>
> a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that
> does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a
> problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the
> kernel smaller in order to acc
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, David Wright wrote:
> I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for
> linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to
> use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk.
>
> Following other people's experience on this list, I w
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