[ale] IDE > 4Gig

[Nomad the Wanderer]

For some stupid reason, this drive (fugitsu I think, it's at home, I'm not)
has 89XX cylendars...  That puts my first partition at 400Megs if I do that...
Not good..

Thus spake Anthony Smith (anthony.smith at chemistry.gatech.edu):

> As far as I know what that means is that the boot partition (i.e. the one which
> contains the / partition must be wholly within the first 1024 cylinders. Other
> than that everything works fine. I have linux on my 6 gig drive first partition
> 1 gb, then two of 2.5.
> Hope this helps, Anthony
> 
> Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to move my drives around in a second machine.  When using fdisk
> > it tells me that lilo, etc may have problems because it's greater than
> > 4Gigs.  I've got it divided into 3 parts.  2.2Gigs(dos), 1.9gigs(Linux)
> > and 130Megs(Swap).
> >
> > Am I going to have problems?  What's the work around?
> >
> > Robert
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris            |   Educate the Masses,
> > Senior System Administrator |      Don't just help them to
> >   at Great West Life.        \_       Remain ignorant.
> >
> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> >
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> >
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 
> 

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Robert L. Harris            |   Educate the Masses,
Senior System Administrator |      Don't just help them to
  at Great West Life.        \_       Remain ignorant.       

http://www.orci.com/~nomad

DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'