zentara wrote: > > Michael Curry wrote: > > > I have a 10G IDE hard drive that I'm planning on running both > > Linux and Win98 from. I used FIPS to partition the drive so there > > are 8G for Win98 and 2G for Linux. The problem is the fact that the > > disk has 1247 cylinders and during the installation YaST refuses to > > have anything to do with creating a partition. I realize that the > > kernel wants to be installed under 1024, but I assume there's no > > reason that Linux can't make use of the cylinders over 1024 for > > things like my /usr and /home partitions. > > > > The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit > from what I've read. Wrong! It can. The reason is simply, that lilo remembers the physical location of data on the disk. At boot time it doesn't care about files, directories, not evev filesystems. That's the reason why you can even store your kernel image on some mounted dos or windows partition. Lilo writes only physical locations in its mapfile. (There are different methods, how lilo can do that. But that's irrelevant in this context.) Anyway it's better to work around that. Otherways, whenever you copy one of the files you would have to assure that it hasn't been stored beyond 1024. > If I were you I would make /dev/hda1 a 1 sector partition to > mount /boot. Then divide the rest up anyway you want. > /dev/hda1 will only be about 10 megs and surely won't straddle > 1024 cylinders. That's a reasonable solution. Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndh.net/home/vossieck/ 49 2291 3010/6519 -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
