How did you partition your 20gb? You should have a 5-10 mb /boot partition at the beginning of the drive, and you can do whatever you want with the rest. In my experience, you should be able to boot just about anything in older machines with that setup. Greg On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:46:24PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I don't know how recednt your computer is but I would strongly > incourage you to create a boot floppy as well. I just dropped in a 20 > gig hard drive in an old 486 box here and now I can't get lilo to boot > from the hard drive. It used to with the previous 10 gigger but I > started getting a bunch of I/O errors and dropped files so upgraded > the hard drive. Thank God I built that floppy or I would be down one > linux machine. > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
