Re: Booting an Alpha 164SX
Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie> writes:
> On Thursday, 22 Oct, Guenter Geiger wrote:
> >
> > 5 MB will be more than enough to keep MILO and linload.exe.
>
> I've seen such estimates several times... Just out of curiousity, where
> does 5 Mb come from?
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cetus users 7168 Sep 10 20:10 linload.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cetus users 439985 Oct 21 21:16 milo
>
> This adds up to 447153 bytes. In the worst case on Ruffian this may
> grow up to 1 Mb, but that's it. I know what "more than enough" means,
> but still, why 5 Mb?
Be happy with 5 MB, the Bios I have insists on a 50 MB Partition,
because winsuxNT won't install on less.
The 5 MB are a bit small I think. I would put root.bin and base2_0.tgz
on the boot partition also, so that when something goes wrong I can
boot a rescue system from there or install a base system onto the swap
partition. It comes in real handy sometimes.
May the Source be with you.
Mrvn
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