[Linux-disciples] Partitioning a hard disk

[Adam Kessel]

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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 08:57:34AM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> The right way to deal with large disks without updating the BIOS is to
> tell Debian to that your root partition is one of the big partitions
> (maybe /dev/hda2) and then go to the 'mount an additional partition'
> option and mount /dev/hda1 on /boot.  /boot is the only part that needs
> to be below cylinder 1024.
> But maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem.

I think you're understanding the problem correctly. The question, I
believe, is how to tell boot-floppies (i.e., Debian installer) to do
this...? =20
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Adam Kessel
http://bostoncoop.net/adam

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