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(...) I'm not sure how MSWin deals with this.... not my field. :) But a key point in the linux world is: the bit that as to be within the first 1024 cylinders is the beginning of the kernel. That means that if your kernel is on a partition that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) errr... just curious (since I know nothing about turbo-linux) - doesn't it run stock kernels? or does it come with several precompiled (like redhat shipping with an smp and a non smp one)? :) Dan (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm.... not sure how much 1024 cylinders would be on this drive. Gotta be more than 500mb, though, because the initial primary partition that Windows ME is living on is a gig. I guess I could have multiple tiny /boot partitions for each (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Mike Stanley" wrote... (...) Mike, I went through this very excersize a week or three ago, and found that I was trying to make it much more difficult than it needed to be. After using rpm (I'm using a Red Hat 6.1 installation here) to install all (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [scheme snipped] Yes, you will run into problems that way. Lilo can only boot kernels in the first 1024 cylinders of a drive. (This is the BIOS's fault, not Lilo's.) On most IDE drives, that's around 500MB. I usually set up workstations like (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: NFS /usr/local (was Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?)
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(...) well, the longer you go between doing them, the more of an issue it is. :) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just installed this on my dual celeron box and it runs like a champ, but I'm trying to figure out how to make KDE my default X-windows thingie.... don't like this Gnome stuff much. Can't get Mandrake to install on this system (doesn't seem to like (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | NFS /usr/local (was Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?)
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:13:44 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) perhaps I should try and rethink our NFS structure. It hasn't been much of a problem though, since there are very few (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah. Yeah, some of the departments I support do a similar thing. (Largely, we use AFS, but we've got some holdouts....) I've tried to move most of them to making the exported directory be /usr/local/somethingorother instead of just /usr/local. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) Hey lookie lookie what I found... (URL) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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