On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:02:16PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually,
> two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives
> which have more than 1024 cylinders.
What is the drive the computer boots from? Is ist selec
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:52:45AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
>Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO
> refused to
> install onto that.
>
>There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI
> using
> an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCS
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > Why do you need a separate partition to boot from?
> > I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders,
> > obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb
> > too.
>
> This is what I thought too! As I said,
> Why do you need a separate partition to boot from?
> I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders,
> obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb
> too.
This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg /
partition thinking I could
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
> >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
> > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
> the following, if
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Pete Harlan wrote:
> >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
> > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
> the following, if you don't want to spl
>Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
> hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more
partitions than necessar
I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually,
two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives
which have more than 1024 cylinders.
My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was
to be root, then a swap partition, then other partit
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