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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.

Linux 1.2.x seems to have some problems with this autotranslation; often it 
doesn't do it. Linux 1.3 is fine though.


hamish

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