I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually, two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives which have more than 1024 cylinders.
My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was to be root, then a swap partition, then other partitions. I did this with Debian's regular installation using cfdisk. However, when it came time to make a file system and/or mount the root partition, the system would not list out the first partition. Next, I tried making one huge partition with about 100 megs in a swap partition. The install program let me create a file system and mount this as root, but of course LILO wouldn't install to make the system bootable from the hard drive. Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track with the small 64 meg root partition -- thus getting that under the 1024 cylinder boundary -- but that doesn't appear to be so. If anyone could give me some pointers on this, I'd greatly appreciate it. -- Regards, |Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
