Mental on Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:27:19 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem


You shouldnt _need_ anything other than lilo and fdisk. If you setup a 
small /boot partition near the front of your drive, you'll be fine. 
NT and '98 share the same boot partition. This isn't a linux specific 
problem. Its a limitation of crappy hardware. IDE is a broken 
technology. Its cheap, but it has more than its share of drawbacks. 
There's a couple solutions. Ditch IDE and go all scsi (I did, its much
faster anyways) or ditch x86 (which by default, sucks) and get a real
computer. The only thing keeping me in x86 land at home is 
entertainment. There just arent that many popular games ported to the 
alpha or sparc :)

The utility previously mentioned that someone wrote to locate a section
of the hard drive is cool, but before I use it I'll need to check on
some stuff about ext2. If its anything like ufs then there's a small but
real chance that the kernel image could possibly be relocated at a 
later time. Just due to how fragmentation is handled. Again, I'm not
certain, its something I may look into out of curiosity. Its not exactly
pressing. The only ide drives I have are moth balled  in my closet.




Mental
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:

> Hm, well I just got a 20.4 gig drive, it's still sitting in the box.
> Ideally I'd like to have linux, NT Server, and win98 all on the drive.
> Is this possible? Or do you think I'd need to use some commercial boot
> manager? Also, I'll have a 1.6 gig drive in the box as a slave drive if
> that would helpful in trying to set this up. And I already own Partition
> Magic 4.0.  Partition Magic 5.0 is out on their website, has anyone used
> it? Does it do anything more than the 4.0 version?
> 
> 
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
> >
> > > Does this problem only exist in linux? Or does it affect other operating
> > > systems as well?
> >
> > It's a PC thing.  Blame IBM.
> >
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