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Big EIDE Disks (2.1G)

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From: Tommy Haywood
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
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My apologies if this is an old question, but it has been
about 18 months since I last upgraded my linux system.
I am getting a new computer on saturday with a 2.1G
EIDE Hard disk. Now I remember back when I first started
getting into linux that big disks (>540MB or >1GB) were
a hassle to use with linux. I was wondering if this is
still a problem? Can I install linux on any partition
on the disk. Another thing I remember was that the boot
partition had to be below 1024 cylinders or something;
is this till the case?

I was also wondering, is there still problems getting 
Diamond Stealth cards working with XFree86?

And one last question: does anyone know of any places
in Melbourne, except for Laserbaud, who sell Linux CD's?

On a different note, does anyone want to fill me in on
what has been happening with Linux since around December
'94 which was the last time I paid any real attention
to happenings. I gather that Version 2.0 of the kernel
is due out any day now. Apparently there is SMP support
now?
--
Tommy Haywood;
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From: tommy@netspace.net.au (Tommy Haywood)
Subject: Big EIDE Disks (2.1G)
Date: 1996/06/05
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