On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:22:54PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> > The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
>
> Yes, I agree it is. However, Hamish was commenting on a
> posting that referred to SCSI drives, not IDE ones.
Actually, *I* was referring t
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From: Christopher Barry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 4:02 PM
To: Nils Rennebarth
Cc: Richardson,Anthony; Hamish Moffatt; p.meidl; debian-user
Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
Hi,
SCSI is not so expensive anymore, just check out www.pricewatc
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>If I understand this correctly, LILO gets a fake geometry from the bios,
at
>boot time, uses this to convert linearly numbered sectors to CHS form.
The
>BIOS takes this CHS form, converts it back to a linear number again and
uses
>this to talk
Hi,
SCSI is not so expensive anymore, just check out www.pricewatch.com and
www.shopper.com. Unless you want the latest bleeding edge Adaptec 2940U2W
controller, you don't have to dish out a lot of dough for scsi. And there are a
lot
of $160 4.5 GB Quantum Viking 7200RPM 8ms disks floating aroun
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 03:26:00PM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> As larger hard drives become more common, maybe soon we'll be talking
> about the 1024/8 GB problem. As in "Help I've installed Linux in the last
> 1 GB of my 10 GB drive and LILO won't boot it."
That really is a serious concern.
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 03:26:00PM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> >The last sentence is wrong. In case of LBA, BIOS as well as LILO to use
> >linear sector numbers. The conversion is made in the drive itself, in a
> I'll stand by my last sentence
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
>> The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
>Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been
a
>problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards l
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> > The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
> Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a
> problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards ly
gt; To: p.meidl; debian-user
> Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote:
> > after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc.
>
> > I recognized that all bootable partition
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a
problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards lying around
here. It is no problem with harddisks and
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:26AM +, Patrick Meidl wrote:
> > > I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th
> > > cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution
> > > might be to have these partitions:
> >
> > With LBA this appears to be incor
IOSes support extended 32 bit C/H/S addressing
(up to 2 TB drives) through new BIOS routines. I don't think LILO
supports these new BIOS routines yet.
Tony Richardson
-Original Message-
From: Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:37 PM
To: p.meidl; debian-
> > I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th
> > cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution
> > might be to have these partitions:
>
> With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems
> booting Linux from the last 500mb o
e else have peculiar successes or failures?
Dave Jones
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> From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 8:35 PM
>
> On Tue
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote:
> after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc.
> I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th
> cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution
> might be to ha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
JonesMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution
>>> of the win95+linux shared documents problem.
>>give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95
>>partition and mount the part
>> furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution
>> of the win95+linux shared documents problem.
>give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95
>partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :)
I have the same setup here. Proble
>
> after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc.
> I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th
> cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution
> might be to have these partitions:
Personally, I use loadlin to boot unix
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote:
> primary:
1) X MB linux native for booting linux
2) 1 GB fat16 for win95
3) extended:
4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM)
5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps
6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux
for ease I have indexed the par
>
> what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files
> must it contain?
>
> # the details:
>
> I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB
> SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space
> distribution:
>
> - 1 GB for win95 (
# abstract:
what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files
must it contain?
# the details:
I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB
SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space
distribution:
- 1 GB for win95 (OS and app
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