From: paulm@waitrose.com
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:28:46 +0000
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OK, put a small partition below the 1024 boundary for /boot (only a couple of cylnders is fine as 8 meg will hold a couple of kernels). IIRC the newest lilo doesn't have a 1024 limit, but I don't think it was in 6.4.
Thanks. I wasn't sure how big /boot should be, nor whether it could be set that way on its own. I've now repartitioned the drive, giving 20 meg to /boot (below 1024), and about 3 gb for / (above 1024). Seems to work pretty well. I've got a later copy of Lilo, so I guess I could install it, but this seems to do the trick.
I'd set up a / and /home minimum (preferably on different disks, but...) to keep the system and data seperate in the event of some bad ju-ju, including planned and unplanned "upgrades" ;-)
:-) Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. In fact, I think that is what I should have done. I installed Mandrake 7.1 as an experiment (I've tried it before, but ended up going back to SuSE every time). And its done something I've not seen since Red Hat 5 - when I rebooted to OS/2 to add the /boot partition to the OS/2 Boot Manager menu, Fdisk under OS/2 now traps. This is most entertaining, since one of the OS/2 defects team was trying to get me to reproduce this problem a couple of months ago. Naturally, at the time, I couldn't do it. So now, having accidently reproduced it, I'm going to have to wait until I've finished collecting results for IBM. Then I'll kill the partitions again and install SuSE - Mandrake is still no better than I remembered...
This, of course, depends on what you are using the system for. Optimal partitioning for a dedicated mail server will be substantially different from a programming workstation. Keep Ockham's razor handy, simpler is better. Salt and pepper to taste.
:-) Thanks again. For the moment, it'll be remaining primarily an OS/2 box. I wanted Linux on it so I can learn more about Linux use for the internet - the other box is only network connected, and I've not been entirely sucessful getting Samba to talk to OS/2. regards, paul. ----------------------------------------------------------- paulm@waitrose.com Paul Marwick - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK Marwick Computer Services - OS/2, LAN & general computer consultants -----------------------------------------------------------