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tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon) writes:

>It's 12 Jun 96  10:41,
>We'll return to simc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU and All's
>discussion of Large IDE drive, old BIOS question

> si> I'm planning on splitting it up into 2 equal partitions,
> si> one for Linux, one for Dos/Windows.
> si> Do I need to load any special program to overcome
> si> the BIOS limitation of 528 meg ? My BIOS is dated 1992.

>No, since your DOS partition (425 MB) will be < 528 MB  Linux has its
>own drivers which don't have the 1024 cylinder limitation.  However, if
>you want to boot Linux from the hard disk, you'll want to install a copy
>of the kernel and necessary boot files on the DOS partition so LILO can
>find them.  There's instructions on how to do this in the LILO user's
>guide.  Alternatively, you are likely to have enough room for a small
>root partition.  In this case, make the root partition so it fits within
>1024 cylinders, and make separate partitions for the /usr and
>/var/spool/news trees, which will be mounted in /etc/fstab

there is a third and 4th way to load linux from that environment.

3. make a one meg partition to store the files lilo needs (only).
this will be a boot partition. the root partition will be the
larger linux partition still ...

4. use loadlin (or someother linux loader for dos, bootlin, syslinux)
   this allows you to put linux in the config.sys memu of dos / win95 ...
   and avoid the complications of lilo all together....


leon