🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:30:10 GMT, Bit Twister 
<reply_this_article@this_news.group> wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:44:38 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:
>
>> System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb
>> Geforce2 MX Video.  Not a year old yet.
>> 
>> Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
>> Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
>> I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
>> moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around
>> 1024 cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy.  Would like to avoid using BIOS
>> to select boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't
>> help (even though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was
>> bootable).
>
>My /etc/lilo.conf has
>lba32
>which lets me boot past the 1024 cyl point.
>
	When you format your second drive try
dividing into /boot (20MEG) and the rest for swap.
Then put the root partition / on the large drive.
Lilo would have boot=dev/hdb or whatever the 
drive is (second controler would be hdc or hdd)
and root=/dev/hdax where x is your partition number.
  
>
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