I do not need to boot from the new large HD. I am happy using my 8.4Gb drive for that. It will purely be for additional storage of data (large Smalltalk code databases, Postgress databases, user data, and possibly Lotus Domino databases sometime soon), no OS stuff at all. Thanks for all your help. This is by far the best place to get Linux help. Cheers, Sean. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 01/01/2001 at 00:08 Chris Reeves wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have the start of this thread, since my ISP's mail server has been playing up (hence the reason for me unknowingly replying to messages that have already been replied to). I'm not sure if this will work or not for an 'extra' disk, but if you're intending to boot off this disk then it certainly *will not* work! If you *do* want to boot off this disk, then you must tell the bios about it and then pass any necessary geometry parameters to LILO so that it can find the rest of the disk.
Sorry that's a bit unclear, Chris