Hello again and thanks for all advice! This week has been rather hard, first the heating and the washing machine broke the same night, then the computer started behaving in a peculiar way, then I corrupted the partition maping on two of my harddisks by using FDISK from OS/2 ver 2.1, it does not support larger harddisks, but now I got it all working, Linux, 2X OS/2 and Windows95 on one disk. Linux does recognize the BIOS information about cylinders, in LBA mode all disks smaller than 8GB will be smaller than 1024 cylinders, no matter what the real number is. Most HOWTOs I read said Linux would have to be below the real 1024th cylinder, which is not true. The bootmanager may have its limits, but that is another matter. The 4Gb disk now has a primary Bootmanager partition of some Mb (it can not be smaller I think), then 500Mb FAT, a primary partition for Windows95, followed by a logical 1Gb HPFS main partition for OS/2, and 400 Mb HPFS with a Polish installation. These serve as servicepartitions for each other. The rest of the disk are four Linuxpartitions /, /home, /usr and /opt. LILO is installed on /. I added the / as type83 (type82 is the swap) in Bootmanager, and Linux has been booting all the time, it was of course not affected by all changing of drives, that I had to do, there are no driveletters. Now I will probably spend the rest of the weekend trying to find my files again... Per B. ************************************************************ The PHOTO&NATURIST page; In English, auf deutsch, po polsku; http://hem.fyristorg.com/pbackman/ ICQ UIN; 40714141 ************************************************************ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
