an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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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


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