I have been using linux for a couple of years, but I have always used machines with new bios and big drives, and I have never had any problem with lilo. I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office from surplus parts. I have a five year old Dell 486 that I is the base for the machine. I have an offer from my boss either to buy a ~500 meg ide drive, which would be less than the old bios restriction, or else to get his new, 1 gig ide drive, and he gets a new 2gig drive. I've looked at the HOWTO's and I am not sure. Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy? steve
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