> run fdisk and then use the 'p' command. This will tell you various stats
> about your hard drive and each partition. You will see the total number
> of cylinders on your disk and the start and end cylinder for each
yeah, I have done that already....but here is the output..
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 26 50 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 51 75 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 76 269 1558305 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 76 91 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 92 142 409626 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 143 269 1020096 83 Linux
only thing I am not sure is the + at the end of some partition... but
cylinders 269+ is not there...
> (btw, vmware, which is very nice, but not on a p200 laptop, runs faster,
> I hear, with a virtual file system. So make vmware use a big file on an
> ext2 partition and not a native ntfs/fat file-system.)
yeah. that's what I am going to use...going to see how much this
dual-celeron can do for me....
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