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In article <319753A2.70C5@deakin.edu.au>,
	steve <xbat@deakin.edu.au> writes:
>My other OS is dos + win95(over 3.1). I set the swap space first, at 10meg.  and then 
>the linux native at 90meg, eg. /dev/hda2 10m /dev/hda3 90m.
>I then found yhat linux didn't like being installed past the 1023 cylinder. My last 
>cylinder is 1057 and the hard drive is an ide 540meg. The BIOS is a phoenix 1.01 witha 

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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.  

The reasoning is that LILO works completely with the bios which has the 
1024 limit and LILO only is used in booting so that if the kernel can be 
found in a 'lower' partition tha\en all is OK.  There is also an advantage 
in keeping the root as a small partition by itself.  it means that you can 
boot into the root partition easily if you are having file system corruption 
- the logic here is that once booted the root partition is very rarely 
written to and has less chance of being  corrupted or left in a real bad 
state if something goes wrong! 

Hope this helps!  Though in your case it will leave you with less overall 
space to play with for linux.

Cheers John