[CLUE-Tech] Installation on secondary HDD's

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:33:32 -0600
"Richard C. Savage" <71OEsAV71 at estreet.com> wrote:

> I hope this is the sort of question that elicits the "Sure, no
> problem!" response.
> 
> So long as the restriction to install a boot partition (~100 MB or
> less) within the first 1024 cylinders on hda is satisfied,
> 
> then the rest of a Linux installation, i.e.,  /, /usr, /home, swap,
> etc - can be installed on hdb,hdc, hdd, etc. On any secondary hard
> drive?
> 
> Potentially, it might even be installed on sda, sdb, etc?, where these
> might be flash drives?
> 
>

Unless you have an ancient version of lilo, there is no longer a problem
with booting from a partition above the 1024 mark. Grub supported this
almost from the getgo.

Sure, no problem.


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