Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

29 Aug 03 04:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond:

 RJT>> So how did you set the BIOS,  since it wouldn't recognized the full 
 RJT>> drive?

 DD>> I let the BIOS auto-determine the drive size (it thought it was 
 DD>> 62Gb). 

 RJT> Was that LBA mode,  or something else?

Yes, LBA.

 DD>> I made a smallish (2Gb) partition and installed Linux. Once 
 DD>> installed and booted I simply used fdisk to partition the rest of
 DD>> the drive. Linux doesn't usually use the BIOS to access the drives.

 RJT> Right.  I figured it was something of that sort,  but wanted to know 
 RJT> how you went about it.

 DD>> When I updated the BIOS and got it booting again (had to re-run 
 DD>> liloconfig), I re-started at the beginning and made one big 
 DD>> partiton (and the swap partition).

 RJT> Did you put swap anyplace in particular?  At the beginning?  The 
 RJT> end?

Two swap partitions at the beginning. The OS boos from partition 3.

Regards,
David

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