Re: Debian installation

[Hamish Moffatt <moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

> Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots
> from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by
> creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for "/", and a larger one for
> "/usr". Other than that, the disk size is not a concern, and this is a
> BIOS limitation, not a Linux one.

Should not be a problem with LBA -- my Linux root partition is
the last 700mb of a 1.6gb drive, ie well after 1023 cylinders.



Hamish


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