Monday AM, I haven't had my caffiene fix yet,
therefore don't know how much of coherency I can aim
for without vibrating my kneecaps off. Here goes
anyway :)
<snip/>
>
> Because of the way the computer's BIOS was designed
> in the past, the
> boot sector should be withing the first 1024
> cylinders of the disk.
Wasn't this fixed in the latest lilo? I havent been in
touch lately, but think I heard something to this
effect.
> This
> means that /boot should be a partition in the
> beginning of the disk.
Can't complain, thats the way I have been doing it for
years now.
<snip/>
> >I have partitioned my hard disk in 4 partition of 5
> GB each . 3
> >partitions are being used for windows and in the
> last partition I am
> >trying to load linux. whenver I am using Disk
> Druid to partition my
> >HDD and setting my /root partition or /boot
> partition . It is giving
> >mssage that boot partition too big . What may be
Hmm too big. Essentially what these guys are saying
does make sense, which is why we battle hardened
veterans normally give 800MB to good old C:\ and the
next 200MB to / or /boot.
What you could do before starting your partition
deleting crusade is read up
http://www.linux.com/howto/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html - you
might find something in there we haven't seen yet.
BTW, you could try using FIPS or Partition Magic - the
latter is pretty highly spoken of.
In other words, get ready for the shit hitting the
fan.
Best of luck, and May The Source Be With You.
Arup
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