THis is to answer the 1st paragraph:

You don't need to get yourself a new harddrive.  You just need to have a
partition that is located
under the 1024 cylinder barrier.  Partition Magic does a great job of
letting you where your partition
is located.  Most OS'es will let you run the OS itself on a partition higher
than the 1024 barrier, but
must boot somewhere within the 1st 1024 C.  A Good example of this is
Windows NT/2000.  You can install
the OS anywhere, but it's boot files but be located somewhere below the
1024th C.  I'm fairly certain Linux
will let you do the same thing during its install, but its been awhile since
I've done an install of Linux.

--Patrick Black

-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Changhsu P. Liu
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:29 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Ghost Hard Drive



I bought a new big and shining Maxtor 45GB IDE dirve, and decied to to
install Linux to a Linux partition I created in Partition Magic (by resize
the partition before it and then create a new Linux partition). System
Commander, which I use to switch between systems, didn't recognized it. I
chose setup in System Commander and set the partition to bootable, and still
couldn't boot to Linux. I gave up. (According v system website, it has to be
on a HD with no more than 1024 cylinders, so I need to install it to a
smaller HD.)

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