Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
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Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders, all should be well, I think. As for the remaining space, I think it is up to you how you partition it. I have been reading these sort of things for an age now, and I think the penny has just dropped - when we say first partition - can I take it we mean the first Linux partition - I hope so coz then the penny really has dropped! Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important.
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders, all should be well, I think. As for the remaining space, I think it is up to you how you partition it. I have been reading these sort of things for an age now, and I think the penny has just dropped - when we say first partition - can I take it we mean the first Linux partition - I hope so coz then the penny really has dropped! Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important. I keep trying to tell the wife that same thing but she keeps mumbling something about metric's big grin Joe
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
Ah, and thank you for drawing that distinction! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition?? Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important.
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders, all should be well, I think. As for the remaining space, I think it is up to you how you partition it. Ernie Michael Seltenright wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. Thanks, Mike "If Budweiser can have a frog to sell beer, why ask about the penguin?" --Linus Torvald
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
Lilo needs to be below the 1024 cyl, but this is not due to lilo, it's due to the bios. Just make the first partition on the drive /boot, 10-15 megs is plenty. On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. Thanks, Mike "If Budweiser can have a frog to sell beer, why ask about the penguin?" --Linus Torvald -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:07:30 -0500, "Michael Seltenright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. If Windows is all by it lonesome on the 27G drive and Linux is on the 8G you don't have any problems. LILO only has a problem if the Linux /boot partition is beyond the 8G mark on it's physical hard drive. It shouldn't have any problem with the Windows drive. If you don't use a boot manger put LILO on the hda (Windows C:) drive. If you are going to use a third party boot manager or boot off a floppy put LILO in the Linux partition. If you are going to mix Windows and another OS on the 27G drive be sure to install Windows first. After all Windows thinks it is the center of the universe and will screw up any other OS on the drive if you give it half a chance. PBen
