[ale] Almost home with Slack-9.1

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Fri Oct 17 17:37:40 EDT 2003


Jason -

Thanks for the reminder. I used all the disk except the swap space for my
root partition, but since the whole disk is only 1.2Gby and some 650 cyl,
it worked fine. I figured I might have to repartition, but I used the
debris left behind by RH-7.2 and it still worked.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jason Day wrote:

> And don't forget to run lilo after you modify /etc/lilo.conf .  Some
> BIOSes have problems booting from large partitions, which is why most
> distros recommend you install a 10-50 MB boot partition.  How big is
> /dev/hda1?

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu



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