[ale] IDE > 4Gig

Anthony Smith anthony.smith at chemistry.gatech.edu
Fri May 22 13:49:27 EDT 1998


As far as I know what that means is that the boot partition (i.e. the one which
contains the / partition must be wholly within the first 1024 cylinders. Other
than that everything works fine. I have linux on my 6 gig drive first partition
1 gb, then two of 2.5.
Hope this helps, Anthony

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> I'm trying to move my drives around in a second machine.  When using fdisk
> it tells me that lilo, etc may have problems because it's greater than
> 4Gigs.  I've got it divided into 3 parts.  2.2Gigs(dos), 1.9gigs(Linux)
> and 130Megs(Swap).
>
> Am I going to have problems?  What's the work around?
>
> Robert
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'






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