I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually,
two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives
which have more than 1024 cylinders.
My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was
to be root, then a swap partition, then other
Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more
partitions than
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Pete Harlan wrote:
Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
the following, if you don't want to split
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
the following, if you
Why do you need a separate partition to boot from?
I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders,
obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb
too.
This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg /
partition thinking I could
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
Why do you need a separate partition to boot from?
I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders,
obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb
too.
This is what I thought too! As I said, I
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:52:45AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO
refused to
install onto that.
There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI
using
an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCSI hard
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:02:16PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually,
two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives
which have more than 1024 cylinders.
What is the drive the computer boots from? Is ist
8 matches
Mail list logo
