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Re: Setting up Debian - II



Many thanks, Paul

Professor Brouwer's Large Disk HOWTO is great (really an understatement),
highly readable, and quite thorough, and in fact specifically discusses the
issues of my 34GB IBM hard drive

DELL has done something in the current BIOS to restrict access to 32.x GB as
a general workaround to this problem, so I will explore whether I may have
inadevertently omitted formatting and with their BIOS workaround whether I
can install the Debian 2.1 CD-ROM distribution in hand

If not, I can always download 2.3.21 which apparently resolves the
addressing issues

All the feedback is much appreciated

David

----- Original Message -----
From: paul <paul@cvanet.com>
To: davidturetsky <davidturetsky@email.msn.com>
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - II


> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky <davidturetsky@email.msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive
as
> > >follows:
> > >  c:         6,997.0   mb
> > >  /               39.2    mb
> > >  swap      258.8    mb
> > >  /usr      5,004.6   mb
> > >  e:       20,332.2   mb
> >
> > Is this a typo or are you trying to reserve 39.2 megs for the root
> > system? Keep in mind that this partition will contain everything below
> > / except /usr, so this setup would be unusable.
> >
> I would reccomend you to read the Large Disk HowTo available from:
> http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
> and the Linux Partition HowTo available from:
> http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html
>
> These documents together should cover most of what is needed to make a
custom
> partitioning strategy that will cover your needs.
>



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