Message-ID: <3A10F214.3113259D@halenet.com.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:04:36 +1000
From: Don Hansford
In <200011131437260907.5E512BB5@exchange1>, on 11/14/00 at 12:28 AM, "Tim Duggan"
said: 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.
At work we have a lab that has two Win95 partitions (one hidden for IT
use only), and I had SuSE installed above them.
Then the Network teacher wanted to put NT on a few of the systems for
his class.
He had to trash a couple of my SuSE partitions to get NT below the 1024
cyl limit. He apologised profusely, then sat back stunned as I did an
install of SuSE above the limit, set Lilo to the boot sector of the root
partition, and config'd BootMagic (already installed on the first Win95
part.). He could not believe that any OS could live completely above the
1024 "limit".
SuSE 6.4 can, so I assume 7.0 could too :-)
I've also done a few installs as shared OS on 18 GB drives, where they
wanted at least 10 GB for Win. On an existing Win system I generally use
Partition Magic to resize, install SuSE, then put LiLo in the MBR, point
it at /boot, (and mostly remember to tell it about Win). :-)
Works like a charm!!!!
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