Just putting my 2 cents worth on the first point. You realise that even
if the ide hard drives that are purchased have more than 1024 cyls you
can reduce this amount by halving cyls and doubling heads, the inbuilt
ide controller on the hard drive will handle the remapping of logical
sectors to physical sectors. Doing this in the BIOS will keep the size
of your drive on actual size, but fool lilo into thinking that the drive
has less than 1024 cyls, when in fact it has more.
Michael.
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> So? The smallest hard disk I can buy now holds 3.2 GB at $110. For
Really. I'd love to know where you can get 3.2Gb disks that have < 1024
cylinders so work in all the 486's I have. Or for that matter 3.2Gb
PCMCIA
disks for the laptop.
> The point being that just one GB is rather large, that NOBODY has less
> than 1 GB to install into anymore and that vanilla RH 5.2 occupies less
I think a lot of people would disagree. I have friends whom I've given
things like spare ISA video cards because they couldn't afford to build
a machine except by collecting other peoples junk and buying the last
few pieces.
The UK isnt a paticularly backward part of the world either. You go try
upgrading from a 540Mb hard disk to 3.2Gb on an Indian wage packet for
example.
> So, aside from yourself (an SMP-aware device driver person, not really a
> direct support person) how many Red Hat direct support persons belong to
> this list? I'm talking about the folks who actually provide answers to
> RH customers when somebody seeks it. A show of hands again?
Raises hand
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