[Linux-disciples] Partitioning a hard disk

[Dylan Thurston]

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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:29:30AM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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

And I think I answered that question above.  You select one of the
'Alternate' options after having initialised the main partition.

Peace,
	Dylan

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