[Linux-disciples] Partitioning a hard disk

[Adam Kessel]

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> 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 nee=
ds
> > > 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
> And I think I answered that question above.  You select one of the
> 'Alternate' options after having initialised the main partition.

Oops, I think you're right. Somehow I forgot that that option affects
installation, not just final configuration.
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Adam Kessel
http://bostoncoop.net/adam

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