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    Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) [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)
   
        Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Mike Stanley
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Dan Boger
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Mike Stanley
     (...) I assume it comes with several precompiled since it gave me choices including i386, i586, i686, with both single processor and SMP. I know it is booting an i686 SMP kernel now. (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Mike Stanley
   (...) Hrmmm... (...) Yeah, I hadn't ever installed RH (and Mandrake won't install here) on a dual processor system, so I didn't get to see it pick. My buddies and I are looking to colocate a custom box we're going to build at a local ISP. Mainly (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) I really like Red Hat, largely because they're extremely good about putting out quick security fixes. (Debian is really good at this too.) And they're generally a well put-together, solid system. I'm running Mandrake on my desktop right now, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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