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It's 21 May 96  15:38,
We'll return to stephen.howard@accc.gov.au and All's
discussion of Large hd with old bios and Linux

 st> I have a 2yr old Osborne with that has a phoenix bios that won't
 st> read a hd >500mb.  If I install a 1.2gb drive, can I use
 st> the bottom 500mb for dos and the remainder for Linux?  Or is Linux
 st> dependent on the bios for accessing the drive's high cylinders?

You can run Linux on the higher numbered cylinders no problems.  I do
that here.  You can even put the kernel and necessary boot files on the
DOS partition so it can boot off the hard disk!   Linux has its own
device drivers, which are independent of BIOS limitations.

My setup is:

First 450MB DOS
Next 32M    Swap
600M        Linux root
150M        /home

The boot files that LILO needs, as well as a copy of the kernel are kept
on the DOS partition in a directory called \LINUX.  /boot is a symbolic
link to this directory (/msdosc/linux), so LILO can find these files
when it's installed.  Works like a charm. :-)


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