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Hi....
This reply is not meant as flame etc just clarify things.
The lilo cylinder limit is actually 1024 not 2045..
The setup on my Libretto is as follows
/dev/hda1/ /boot 2.5 mg
/dev/hda3/ / 777 mg
Surjit Bains (City, London).
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Sent: 21 January 1999 10:22
To: Surjit Bains
Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] Pre-install SuSE on a HD
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That problem with Lilo is an easy one to fix, I
installed a
quantam bigfoot (12 gig) and made the root (/) partition sit within the
2045
cylindar limit.
LILO fails with disk geometry problems when it sits over
the
boundary but if you create your / partition within the boundary it works
everytime
Sample Setup:
/dev/hda1 / (Partition Size about 1-2 gig)
/dev/hda2 /usr
/dev/hda3 /home
/dev/hda4 swap
That little bugger took me ages to figure out !
Cheers
:-)
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Pre-install
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I Personally have done this several
times...
the main problems are...
BIOS ...i.e. I stuck a 2.1GB disk from
pentium class into a old 4/25
machine (the bios didn't support drives
larger than about 500mb bios
upgrade required)
Causes probs with lilo...
REMEDY take a boot disk...
X-Windows....
The graphics card is bound to be
different....
probably need to run XF86Setup,SaX.....
make sure you install extra X-servers or
find out before hand...
I don't really know about the
partitions....
I hope I have Helped.
Surjit Bains
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A friend in the UK is keen to try Linux
- I
suspect he may have had ago,
and, as even more of a newbie than I,
had
mixed success...
I naturally have been boasting about my
humble successes with SuSE v 5.3
and the wonders of YaST.
He is flying out from London in a few
days,
and has asked that if he
brings a HD with him, that I install
SuSE
plus my setup to encode audio
- ie install a working Real Audio
Encoder, a
mixer, and some sample
shell-scripts etc so that he can pop it
into
his nice new PC in London
on his return...
Even I know it can't be quite that easy
- I
have no idea what hard-ware
he has etc.
But I'm wondering if it might be
possible to
do an install in such a way
that all he has to do on his return is
to
re-install the basic system,
then mount the partition where I've put
the
audio software etc.
Is this at all a practical
proposition???
How might I go about it? Any
suggestions
would be very welcome...
TIA
Richard King
Johannesburg
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