At 22:17 +0200 on 26/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: >> >>The only sticking point I see with using the 7.1 kernel as a base is >>that it doesn't support >2GB drives which might be a problem on Quadras >>with phat hard disks (mentions no names but hums a little tune as we >>are really on the wrong list ;) ). I am more thinking about running it >>on 040 machines as it is wkd fast on them and there is a system enabler >>for pretty much all of them AFIAK. > >7.1 can handle drives as large as you want, but it can't handle >partitions larger than 2 gig.
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