The questions:
>1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version >info
>right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity >AT)
>and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that >this
>will allow the system to access partitions larger than
>1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct?
>If so, then shouldn't I be able to use a bootable
>partition of greater than 1024 cyls?
Older computers could not boot from partitions that were larger than
1024 cylinders. Atleast the boot loader and software being loaded had
to reside within the first 1024 cylinders of a partition. LILO is
loaded by the bios and resides in the MBR of the disk, or the boot
sector of the bootable partition. Assuming that your linux partition
STARTS within the first 1024 cylinders you can make the partition ANY
size. Some people will make two partitions (p1 = swap, p2 = linux /),
others might make a separate partition for /boot, keeping it small to
overcome the 1024 limit. You bios allows LBA so you should have no
problems at all with partition size. Make a swap partition as
partition #1, size of 16-128MB depending on your ram size (say twice
as much swap as ram). Make partition #2 the rest of the disk. This
will work without head scratching (My computer has partition #1 for
windows 95, #2 for linux swap, #3 for linux /, as I needed dual boot.
Install windows first, but only partion the first partition using
windows fdisk leaving the lions share of the disk for linux. My 5.4GB
drive has a 1g windows partition, 128M swap, and the rest is linux /.
YMMV)
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