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From: summer
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00

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In <howardc-1312951127260001@dialup1.castlemaine.net.au>, howardc@castlemaine.net.au (Howard Cock) writes:
>In article <jamespm.2.001534B6@acslink.net.au>, jamespm@acslink.net.au
>(James Maurice) wrote:
>
>> hello :-)
>> 
>> I have a 1.2 gig hard drive, partitioned with 700 meg windows. I tried to 
>> install Linux onto the remaining portion of the drive and experienced 
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>700 mb windows? What a shame :)
>I'm guessing you have an EIDE drive?
>
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>Note however: LILO will not be able to boot a kernel that resides in a
>partition, if that partition starts on a cylinder over a certain number -
1023
Actually, I'm not sure whether it's the starting address that matters, or whether
the boot code must be below this mark or the entire partition. But, the number is 1023.

It really is a shame about the 700Mb WIN.

Cheers
John Summerfield
Warped & Connected
Perth, Western Australia

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Date: 1995/12/13
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