-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:40:27AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Just a note on drive size: > Whilst your bios might have an 8-gig limit, it is easy enough to simply > clip the drive capacity to something small and let linux find the whole > drive, or set host protected area to 8gb and let linux override it. > Linux accesses the drive using LBA so once the kernel and initrd are > loaded from the /boot partition which must reside below 8gb the system > should be fine. Yes, I was though thinking in terms of wanting to run an os in the future which gets drive geometry from the bios, and doesn't care about anything else. > Did doing an expert install change the parameters re package selection? I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. > I > should try this in a virtual machine sometime see how it flies. I was actually toying with that idea, doing exactly what I did before, to see if it was in fact the age of the hardware which caused the install to go on for such a long time, or some other factor. I think I still might do that. Thanks. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku+YgQACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyD5bgCgv8s7VnLNEsOYdZf6XGa/aihZ dE4An2HCadcnyRhkwgG5XC9QjWaFB1om =o79H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
