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From: Tim Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>> Is it true what I've heard, though, that if you ar
> Is it true what I've heard, though, that if you are for instance running
> EZ-BIOS (Maxtor's bios extension, to get around the 512M limit for
> larger
> disks), it loads itself into the MBR and then when LILO comes around to
> putting itself in the MBR, it gags because EZ-BIOS is there?
>
> I'v
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Date: March 20, 1998 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>Robert Hart wrote:
>
>> Provided you put the kernel and lilo below cylinger 1024 you will be
>> fine (the best way to guarantee that is to create a 50MB root
>> partition in
Robert Hart wrote:
> Provided you put the kernel and lilo below cylinger 1024 you will be
> fine (the best way to guarantee that is to create a 50MB root
> partition in that area and have separate /usr /var and /home
> partitions).
>
> Linux will happily cope with the large disk - just that the
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Robert Hart wrote:
> If anyone has tried this please let me know as this will save me 30
> minutes on one of our test machines...
I just tried it since I needed a reinstall anyway. And it's working just
perfectly. I know this test probably isn't the most reliable since it's
ch 19, 1998 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote:
>
>> Robert;
>>
>> Thank you for your most appropriate and valid suggestion.
>
>Pleasure!
>
>> I thought (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if I mak
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote:
> Robert;
>
> Thank you for your most appropriate and valid suggestion.
Pleasure!
> I thought (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if I make my
> root partition the first partition, no matter what size it is, that
> Linux would place its initial in
At 02:23 PM 3/19/98 -0800, Beth Gemeny wrote:
>I thought (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if I make my root
>partition the first partition, no matter what size it is,
Certainly if your / partition is smaller than 541MB (which is likely).
>that Linux would
>place its initial install at th
em
of having the kernel located beyond cylinder 1024 would not arise unless
I recompiled it. Which I do not plan to do.
Cheers,
Bethg:-)
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From: Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 19, 1998 1:10 PM
Subject: Re:
> "T" == Terry Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
T> 1024. Then / may be any size located anywhere (is this true?). The
T> reason I use /boot is because of its small size, contains the
T> kernel, and is not likely to grow. Any comments on what I'm doing?
Yes. Sounds like an amazingly good id
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Provided you put the kernel and lilo below cylinger 1024 you will be
fine (the best way to guarantee that is to create a 50MB root
partition in that area and have separate /usr /var and /home
partitions).
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Hope you don't mind
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote:
> Building yet another Linux server from a recycled 486. I am
> using a Maxtor IDE 4.3GB hard drive that uses an over-lay
> software from Microhouse to enable this old, unupgradable BIOS
> to read more than 528MB-hard drive.
>
> This software inserts its
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