[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Quick question...why was this so painless on the last system I installed
> Linux on? (also the first) I thought it got easier?
>
> In a message dated 04/24/2000 12:12:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Civileme....you are of course correct about the need for a Linux
> /boot partition under the 1024 cylinder limit (oops, I got so
> involved in the BootMagic question I failed to note the need for
> a Linux /boot partition). But, BootMagic also needs to be
> installed on a dos/windows (not ntfs) partition that ends before
> the 1024 cylinder limit, else it will refuse to install. >>
LOL
Bet it had a disk that today would be considered tiny. Look at
your system. It's a freakin' fire-breathing behemoth!
Well when ENIAC was created (a vacuum tube computer that was
reprogrammed by rewiring), the "experts" who created it
speculated that FOUR of them would satisfy the World's
Computational Needs. You can beat ENIAC with a programmable
calculator!
And when the PC was made with the weak 8088 (couldn't beat a
decent Z80 implementation), some engineer at IBM decided the
PC-BIOS needed only a 10-bit number for cylinder, because 1024
cylinder disks weren't anywhere at the time, and 20 Mb was HUGE.
Most microcomputer proggies ran in 64K of memory and many were
wondering what to do with "all that room" in the 640K potential
of the PC. Even a youngster named Bill thought no one would need
more than 640K to run a program....
Well, we are hitting limits. Some problems occur with linux
(minor ones to be sure) when the "time since last boot" counter
wraps around. It is only 32 bits, after all, so it happens at
about 490 days uptime.
Expect more problems rather than less as we chase the quantum
limits of this technology.
Civileme
