Hi all.
>> You may have meant this, but it isn't explicit. When you do lilo,
>> have it put its stuff on hda3 and not the MBR (hda).
> Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Others recommend creating a
> small /boot partition.
In my experience, if your hard disk is larger than 500 meg, then the
SAFEST way to install Linux is to allocate the first 6-15 meg of the
hard drive to be mounted as /boot with a swap partition following
that, and everything else after that...
My current laptop, a 486dx4/75 based system with 12M of RAM and a 4.3G
hard drive, follows this pattern: The first 2 cylinders are allocated
to /boot in hda1 (which thus occupies 8 meg), then a 120 meg swap
partition in hda2, then root in hda3, and hda4 is a standard extended
partition occupied by various other partitions...
Best wishes from Riley.
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