From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EE2C1A370 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E285D26929C; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:08:52 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:08:52 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: an observation, and question Message-ID: <20100408230852.GA16146@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20100408185419.GA10369@romuald.net.eu.org> <4DC13FCCBAAE4D8B9A4B7EAFA5BC0543@bouncy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DC13FCCBAAE4D8B9A4B7EAFA5BC0543@bouncy> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:09:10 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku+YgQACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyD5bgCgv8s7VnLNEsOYdZf6XGa/aihZ dE4An2HCadcnyRhkwgG5XC9QjWaFB1om =o79H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----