I have a 486 DX2 66 with 1992 Phoenix Bios that will only see 516 megs. The
first drive in my computer is a Conner 540 meg drive, the second drive is a
Maxtor 4.3 gig drive. I don't have a CD player but I do have a small LAN
with a NT 4.0 server and CD. The first drive has a 300 meg partion which is
MSDOS FAT 16. I installed RedHat 5.0 from the local drive. None of the
freespace was formated with any file system before I began. 300 megs is
enough space to accomadate the RedHat root directory and all the subs
(RPM's). Using Druid to handle disk formatting it saw all of the free space
on both hard drives. Using the guidelines in the RH 5.0 manual I setup my
root partition to be 100 megs. The rest of the first drive is for swap. No
problems with LILO on this setup because root is below the 1023 cylinder.
There also is no need to use the Maxtor drive utility with this setup.
Tom Jenkins - MCPS
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From: Tim Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>> Is it true what I've heard, though, that if you are for instance running
>> EZ-BIOS (Maxtor's bios extension, to get around the 512M limit for
>> larger
>> disks), it loads itself into the MBR and then when LILO comes around to
>> putting itself in the MBR, it gags because EZ-BIOS is there?
>>
>> I've been told that no matter how hard I work to avoid the 1023cylander
>> problem
>> as long as EZ-BIOS is in MBR, I will not get LILO to work. Is this true?
>
>I was able to run linux and 95 together on a WD drive with the WD Drive
>Manager in the MBR, but only using the OS/2 bootmanager (available with
>partition magic 3.0). At the time I had to use a 1.3.xx kernal (at the
>time) to cope with the translated drive parameters (I think I had to
>tell fdisk the right parameters?) and lilo was installed on the linux
>partition, but it worked fine. Boot Manager can be intalled on a small
>partition anywhere on the drive, and it doesn't affect the MBR.
>
>I finally ran into trouble when I added a new drive and I could never
>get the two drives to work quite right together while drive manager was
>present on the first drive, so I backed it all up to the new drive and
>fdisk /mbr 'ed the first drive.
>
>I still use boot manager rather than lilo to boot between 95, OS/2 and
>linux... Isn't there another app like boot manager available for linux.
>Seem to remember seeing one somewhere on the ANOUNCE list.
>
>tim
>
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