Lawrence Sayre wrote:
Will SuSE 7.0 permit instalation beyond the 1024 hard drive barier?
What 1024 barrier would that be? SuSE (and all Linux distros) have been able to use all of the hard drive for years. The 1024 cylinder limitation was introduced because of limited address space in the BIOS, and since Linux doesn't make use of the BIOS apart from at boot up, there is no limitation to what parts of the drive Linux can access. Having said that, of course, there's still the problem of booting the kernel. All the files that LILO needs to boot must be located below the 1024th cylinder, which is the only limitation. AFAIK this is still an ongoing problem. Hope that helps (and noone else has replied between me checking my mail and my reply being sent - that's the problem with dialup :-( ), Chris -- Unfortunately I'm back on V90 (yeah, right) dialup for the rest of my life, so I apologise in advance for any time delay in replies. Thanks. __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq