so I may or may not be screwed when it comes to installing mandrake seamlessly
on my machine with a 13 gig drive then. I may end up with a boot floppy
(floppies always piss me off - they're so amazingly unreliable)
ok, fair enough. I guess time will tell.
Don
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On Fri, 18 Jun
1999, you wrote: > Hi > Typically, most bios's now do a type of mapping - > and
they may map 256 sectors, 32 heads per cylinder. > That says that you would
need to exceed 4 GBytes+ > before you would run into the 1024 cylinder limit. >
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo
>
>
> I don't understand. I'm using venus, I have a 2 gig drive there, I'm using
> 1
> big partition for all my linux stuff and the only other partition is a small
> swap partition (I know, I know, but I didn't want to partition my drive like
> crazy as I tend to download lots of stuff and figured I'd run out of space -
> anyway this install is just to learn linux well, I'll do it properly on my
> 13
> gig machine later). Anyway, lilo is installed perfectly, no prob, no floppy
> boot needed, and my drive is more than 1024 cyl. right?
>
> Don
> -------------
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you
> wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more
> than
> > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > >
> Thanks
> > jsm
