On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:02:58 +0100, "Peter Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes. > > Now I have another concern. > > I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and > formatted NTFS. > > I plan to use Partitionmagic 7.0 to shrink this partition to 40GB thus > leaving me 40GB to install LM 8.2. However the PM manual containds dire > warnings about a linux bootable partition needing to be below the 1024 > cylinder (8GB) boundary. > > Is this still a problem with LM 8.2 and if so what would be the best way > round it. > > Note my previous nmachine only had a 8GB disk and so I had no problems with > Win 98 and LM 8.0.
The PM documentation is outdated by a couple of years. LILO and GRUB can boot Linux from just about anywhere on the disc. You can safely install Mandrake 8.2 [or better yet, wait for 9.0, which should be out in under a month :) ] to wherever you want. AFAIK, Windows still has this 1024 cylinder limit. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm "needed". It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most at it. Not necessarily better than everybody else around there, but good enough, and with the social ties to make me unbeatable right now." -- Linus Torvalds
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