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Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 04:18:31 GMT
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
> 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'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 spans that boundary, it'll probably work right
away, 'cause when it got installed, it probably happened pretty early on.
But then, if you upgrade your kernel ever, suddenly your machine won't boot.
> I guess I could have multiple tiny /boot partitions for each distro...
You could probably get away with two. One would be the 'real' boot partion,
and the other you'd use when installing stuff. Once installed, you'd
reconfigure them (not hard) to use the real boot partition. (With you doing
it manually, the different distros won't step on each other. You could even
make them share the same kernel, if you're careful.) In fact, once you've
got everything set up, the 'spare' partition could be turned into additional
swap.
> Starting to sound like more work than it is worth. I like that
> TurboLinux gave me a choice of kernels, including one optimized for
> PII/III SMP. I assume that means it should be running faster than a
> standard i386 kernel.
FWIW, Red Hat (and Mandrake and other RH-derived distros) ships with i386,
i586, and i686 kernels, in single proc and SMP flavors. It just picks which
to install automatically.
> Gonna put an old 6 gig drive in my test machine (K62-233) tonight and
> put Mandrake on it. I figure I'll limit my dual celeron system to one
> distro anyway, since I want to use it to run vmware and multiple
> Win2k/WinNT setups. Maybe even Netware. ;)
You know, if you want to play with distros, VMware works really well for
that....
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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