--- "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Joe wrote:
>
> > also it looks as thoug you have a 24.1 Gig drive? you may
> need to partition
> > this drive, not sure what the max size hd lilo can reside
> on.. the 1024
>
> The ten bit limit in the cylinder field is fundamental and
> AFAIK cannot
> be changed without fatal trauma (that is, rewriting all sorts
> of legacy
> code including BIOS stuff). The boot partition MUST be less
> than 1024
> cylinders. Sometimes remapping will get you there, but on
> really big
> disks it often won't. The only solution is to repartition so
> that your
> boot partition is 1023 cylinders or less in size.
>
>
as I said try making ht efirst partiton less than 8 gig,
my current Linux system is less than 1.5 gig /root dir, this
includes 7 window managers, (including KDE and GNOME), hylafax,
Mesa, lestiff, and countless other programs. the 2 biggest
directlires are my /home dir adn my /public dir where I do all
my development.
You cantry partitioning hte drive like so
/ -> 1Gig
/home -> 10 Gig
/usr -> 10 Gig
/some other dir -> 3 gig
this can vary depending on what you are doing with all that
space. If you have large data files (images, 3d , databases,
etc) you may want to change the sizes ... there are many difernt
combination that can be done and this is CERTAINLY less than
ideal, but it is just to give you some idea...
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