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From: Robert Brockway
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:00

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Hamish Moffatt (hamish@rising.com.au) wrote:

: Thursday May 16 1996 22:08, jmf@estuary.pwd.nsw.gov.au wrote:

:  > The normal approach to this is to set up a small root partition normally
:  > 20M is satisfactory + swap + usr partition.  The trick is that the root
:  >  partition is below the 1024 limit - so this is easy to achieve.

: From my experience this isn't necessary; I have a WD 1.6gb drive, with 16
: heads, 63 sectors and 3148 cylinders. Linux lives in the final 500mb of the 
: drive, ie well after 1024 cylinders. Linux automatically translates the disk 
: geometry from 3148/16/63 to 767/64/63, which works fine with LILO. (Actually,
: >16 heads shouldn't be valid, but seems to work). And Linux translates my 540mb
: >drive from 1048/16/63 to 524/32/63.

EIDE doesn't have the 1024 cylinder limitation, but it was a very real 
limitation in IDE.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
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I'll try anything once, and if i like it, i'll take it up as a hobby!

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