This is the alternative I chose: For a WD 4.3 UDMA I created partitions of 528 Mb, initially. I later went back and tailored my partitions to sizes I thought I would need keeping / below the first 1024 cylinder barrier with root using a mere 100M, /usr 1 Gb, /opt 500 Mb, and /home 100 Mb. It may not make for the most optimum system, but it does work and I am, also, running RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0 not to mention OS/2 Warp 3.0 and all booting from the boot manager with the help of LILO. Buy the way, just ti reiterate / in every case is below 528Mb. Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com Penguin inside! Now THAT'S Cool! On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:38:21 -0700 (PDT) zens <zen@toyzworkz.com> writes:
you may wish to enable LBA (Large Block Access) mode in your bios
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Alan Riggins wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE 5.2 onto a PII with an IBM 14GB HD. This drive has 1757 cylinders, but not all of them are recognized. If I select system information from setup, before yast is launched, the
full
size of the disk is recognized. However, yast won't let me assign a partition to any area past cylinder 1024.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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This is the alternative I chose: For a WD 4.3 UDMA I created partitions of 528 Mb, initially. I later went back and tailored my partitions to sizes I thought I would need keeping / below the first 1024 cylinder barrier with root using a mere 100M, /usr 1 Gb, /opt 500 Mb, and /home 100 Mb. It may not make for the most optimum system, but it does work and I am, also, running RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0 not to mention OS/2 Warp 3.0 and all booting from the boot manager with the help of LILO. Buy the way, just ti reiterate / in every case is below 528Mb.
Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com
Penguin inside! Now THAT'S Cool!
With a large HD, I recommend that you add an extra partition for / (root) backup. It'll only take and extra 100 MB and will protect you from disaster if you lose your root partition. A small cron job can be set to back it up regularly. Another good way if you have a LAN is to back up root partitions on another machine in the LAN. Actually, this is the way I do it. My hard drive on my SuSE 5.2 just went belly up and I lost my root partition and my entire configuration. But, since I have a backup, it was no problem to get my system back up when I installed the new hard drive. The rest of my partitions were still in great shape. I was up and running in less than 20 minutes. The root partition is too important not to keep an up-to-date backup around. Arne W. Flones Long Ship Software flonesaw@netonecom.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Would you mind posting the script for that cron job?
With a large HD, I recommend that you add an extra partition for / (root) backup. It'll only take and extra 100 MB and will protect you from disaster if you lose your root partition. A small cron job can be set to back it up regularly.
Another good way if you have a LAN is to back up root partitions on another machine in the LAN. Actually, this is the way I do it.
My hard drive on my SuSE 5.2 just went belly up and I lost my root partition and my entire configuration. But, since I have a backup, it was no problem to get my system back up when I installed the new hard drive. The rest of my partitions were still in great shape. I was up and running in less than 20 minutes.
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