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What Linux distribution that can be installed in a big Hard disk, exceed
1024 Cylinder? I found 'Best Linux' is the one. I put Linux native above
1024 and it still can be boot from there. Can anyone suggest the
others?

Somsak

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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208

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SL> What Linux distribution that can be installed in a big Hard disk, exceed
SL> 1024 Cylinder? I found 'Best Linux' is the one. I put Linux native above
SL> 1024 and it still can be boot from there. Can anyone suggest the
SL> others?
SL>
SL> Somsak
SL>  

ALL linux distributions have no problem with big disks.  *LILO* has
trouble with big disks.  Several options:

1) Use a different boot manager.

2) Use loadlin.exe from Autoexec.bat somehow.  It might even work from the
Start menu. (I don't use MS-Windows myself, so I have no experience with
this hack.)

3) Use Partition Magic to shrink MS-Window's C: partition to leave 5 meg
between it and cylinder 1024.  Create an ext2 partition there, mount it
a /boot, but vmlinux-xxx there.  Lilo becomes happy...

4) As 3, but make 64meg available mount as /, putting /usr, /var, /home,
etc. elsewhere.

5) Use a boot floppy.

There is a lilo variant / replacement that use the big disk BIOS calls,
but I think it only works for IDE disks.  This would be under 1 above.

Since I only deal with pure Linux systems, I always opt for a 64 meg
root (/) partition at the beginning of the disk, regardless of size.
Lilo is always happy, since vmlinux & crew are always below the infamous
1024th cylinder...

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