[PLUG] installing debian

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Troy A. Johnson wrote:

> I got about halfway through it (I think) past the driver installation,
> but when I tried to install LILO I have that "first 1023" cylinder
> problem.  It tells me the workaround for that is to create a tiny
> 5-10MB partition as the boot partition on the drive and install the
> boot manager there.

That's the best option in terms of compatibility, it works even on older
computers.  On modern computers with a modern version of LILO you can add
the "lba32" option in the global section of lilo.conf.  The lilo.conf man
page says the lba32 option is "recommended on all post-1998 systems"
anyway.

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Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>