On Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 22:07:29 (-0800), Nick wrote: > I don't know much about the 1024 cyclinder except that you need to install > root somewhere before it.
We're talking about i386, right? On older systems, the kernel image had to be before that boundary. I usually made a separate /boot partition right at the beginning of the disk, then / could be anywhere (well, almost). > How can I tell w/ my drive? Using a IBM Deskstar ATA/100 45 Gig AFAIK, LILO in potato supports LBA32 addressing scheme. With that HDD and a recent BIOS, where recent is late 1997, you should _theoretically_ be able to boot from anywhere on that drive. Still you can use the beforementioned approach. > I wanna make: > / > /usr > /home > /data maybe? Are you asking for size estimates? Heavily depends on desired usage. > How do I know when to use primary vs. logical? You can only use a limited number of primary partitions. Primary and logical cannot be intermixed in any combination (you cannot put a primary between two logical partitions). With Linux, you don't *need* primary partitions, you can exclusively use logical partitions, if you wish. FYI, I currently have: hda1 50MB /boot [Primary] hda2 2000MB /home [Primary] hda5 100MB / [Logical] hda6 2500MB /usr [Logical] hda7 1000MB /var [Logical] Where '/usr' is too big and '/home' and '/var' are too small... -- _ _ Marc A. Donges +49 791 51804 'v' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / \ PGP-Key(DSA): 1024D/1C9ECFF2 W W Fingerprint: 58B9 07A6 CBB1 7016 EB1D 7D35 EEBE 67DC 1C9E CFF2
