Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes.
Now I have another concern.
I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and
formatted NTFS.
I plan to use Partitionmagic 7.0 to shrink this partition to 40GB thus
leaving me 40GB to install LM 8.2.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:02:58 +0100
Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However the PM manual containds dire
warnings about a linux bootable partition needing to be below the 1024
cylinder (8GB) boundary.
Is this still a problem with LM 8.2 and if so what would be the best
way round it.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:02:58 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes.
Now I have another concern.
I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and
formatted NTFS.
I plan to use
I have the same arrangement. Hda for windows, hdb for linux and hda for
windows. I also have 8 gig of hdb for windows but it wont see it because it
comes after a linux partition.
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, you wrote:
Jake,
You may also consider a different partitioning strategy:
* 1 or 2 GB to
Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 uses GRUB instead of LILO by default. GRUB and newer
versions of LILO do not have a 1024 cylinder limit, so you can boot from just
about anywhere on the disc.
You have to be careful when making a partition just for the OS. With Linux,
there are few problems, if any. But
Easy, install Mandrake so that the boot partition is well within the first
8 gigs off your harddrive. My situation with my 19 gig drives is
first 6 gigs win2k
next 3 gis mandrake
last 10 gigs windows(media partition)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago,
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading
up trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the
documentation on the Mandrake page, the Instillation
How-To, the Win95+Linux How- To,
Or, if putting the bulk of the OS within the first 8 gig is not an option,
put a 20 meg partition at the very front of the HD and run the
installation discs...lilo will automatically be installed there...
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #190719
On Tue, 19 Dec
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Jakeyes with 7.0 you do need to make sure that the
partition that contains the kernal ends before the 1024th
cylinder of your drive. This is of no concern if the
drive you're using is 8 megs or less in size
