Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:41:38 01/18/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 10:30:51, Pete Galati wrote: >I'm planning to go out and get a new harddrive for my computer today or tuesday, >I expect to get a Western Digital 20.? GB drive. > >With the Windows 95 that I have now I hear that I'll be restricted to 2 GB >partitions. So my plan is to break it down into 2 GB sections and maybe a large >section at the end. > >What I'm expecting to do at the moment is to move all the Chess programs to >drive D, then drives E & F will be for tablebases (that I never had room for >before!) Then G would just be a copy of C for backups. & H etc. ? > >But I have a question about Linux since I'll have some room for it now, will it >be possible to boot into Linux from that far back in the drive or is there a >restriction to that and maybe I should be moving Linux to drive E or F? And can >Linux handle large partitions? I've noticed that the instructions that I looked >at a couple of years back by now recommended what I though was an exceesive >amount of partioning in the Linux partioned area of the harddrive, is this >really needed or is it some sort of paranoia on the part of the authors of those >instrutions? > >Also, when I download tablebases through Windows 95, I'm assuming that they are >not altered at all by way of the operating system that I use to download them. >Is this true? Will I be able to use these tablebases when I eventually manage >to get Linux & Xwindows up and running with the Xboard Chess programs? > >Thanks > >Pete No. You need a boot partition (at present) in the first 1024 cylinders of the drive. Someone on the linux SMP mailing list sent me email about a test version of LILO that doesn't have this restriction, but I haven't seen it released yet (although it is certainly possible0. The simple solution is to install linux on the first partition which can be any size, but beware of making it larger than 1024 cylinders). You can even make a 64mb partition to install the /boot stuff in, if you want...
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