>> I have a p166 lying around with a 2gig hard drive that I've been
>>meaning to get linux and (*gasp*) win95 (for games and such ;). Now what
>>I have been looking around for is the cut off point in megs that the
>>1024th cylander is on. If I were to make a dos-fat partition how big
>>should it be if I wanted to add a linux root partition right after it to
>>boot linux? Is it a gig? a meg =) ? a Kb ? hehehe.. tia for any help!!!
>
>Umm, the size of a cylinder is determined by the numbers of heads and sectors
>that are assigned per cylinder by the manufacturer.
>
>Check the specs on the drive and figure it out.
>
Wouldn't a P166 support LBA?
Robert Hailman
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