Re: AS200 install

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Alan Kennedy wrote:
> 
> ---Craig Oettle <craig_oettle@dynasty.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Caveats:
> > Make sure you have at least 32M of RAM.
.....
> 
> Why must the partitions be smaller than 2gigs? I have a 4gig partition 
> and it works well.

A big working Linux partition reported recently by somebody from Boenig
was around 850 GB so partitions above 2 GB are definitely possible. :-)
It was put together using 'md' device from two rather specialized
disk arrays.  BTW - this guy has plans for over 2 TB partitions soon,
if he will manage to get his hands on enough of disk racks.

OTOH milo is apparently using 'int' variable for an inode number of
a boot image to load; hence you do not want such image "too far" and
the best way to ensure that is to keep a partition from which you are
booting rather small.  I do not think that this is documented anywhere,
or even intended, but this is a current "fact-of-life". :-) If you happen
to have on your hard drive a minimal FAT partition for automatic boot
purposes you may store your kernels to boot there as well.  It will work
just dandy; just keep names within FAT filesystem limitations.

   Michal