On 9/20/25 10:17, Roderick wrote:
Thanks a lot Nick!
Is hence a big offset for the root partition a problem?
Should not also a bootable MBR partition at the end of the disk be problematic?
That's all machine specific. If you had one of those 504MB limit BIOSs (that
Crystal probably rightly says won't work...and the 486 I had in place to test
quit working for HW reasons), yes, it would be a problem if / was anywhere
other than the very front of the drive. But "modern" computers will generally
support much more. It isn't a problem I've encountered recently, and even
then, only happened when I did stupid things like 160G drives on 486s, etc.
and I do mean "machine specific" -- not platform specific.
Nick.
