Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:00:18
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
>From: Richard Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:21:41 -0800
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>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:08:02 +0000
>From: Richard Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
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>thanks for the reply, sofar seems to work fine.
>Mandrake 7.2 installed on the portion of the drive not seen by bios,
>however I am concerned that by using a combination of fdisk/partmagic/and
>the linux partition manager, I may not have left space for the hibernation,
>any ideas where the bios is likley to put it. I am assuming a portion of
>unused space = to or > than the ammount of ram (in this case 32meg) at the
>end of the drive as seen by the bios? any ideas would be welcome.
>From previous correspondence on this (I haven't checked myself as I only
have 6G) the last 32M+2M (for screen memory) is reserved at the end of the
8G slot - i.e. just before 8G. If the bios formatted it, it should be there.
But if you used fdisk or diskdruid or whatever from linux, then as that area
is not defined as a partition (it's just left empty) then you probably
stomped on it. As your linux is fresh, I'd remove its partition, build a new
dos partition 40M or so straight after the existing dos partition, and
*then* do the linux install to the bit that's left. The reason I suggest
using a partition is that it's visible to the partitioning software and you
can see how big it is - but with linux fdisk and the others you can set the
start cylinders if you can work out how big a cylinder is! (so if you want
more partitions you don't *really* have to partition the hibernation chunk)
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>Secondly a problem with the screen size and Linux, the desktop is fine and
>defaults to 640 x 480 however when opening the config manager in either
>gnome or KDE the screen is greater than the visable area, the window can be
>moved around however not sufficently to see lower portion of the window
>(the bit with the buttons on) I can find no way of resizing that particular
>screen window?
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Sounds like you've got a virtual window that's not big enough. I've used
800*600 on the virtual window and that seems to be fine for everything in
Mandrake 6.1. You can change that by editing the file /etc/XF86Config and
looking for 'virtual = ' bits - or using the horrible program xf86config and
answering all the questions again - but say yes when it asks if you want
virtual desktop.
Neil
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>>1. Use IBM's disk manager for free off www.storage.ibm.com
>>2. Use Partition Magic to create the partitions
>>3. Use Win2K, which bypasses what the BIOS says it sees and can partition
>>it
>>all.
>>4. Use Linux partition.
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>>d =)
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