Re: First Impressions!

[Jesse Keating <hosting j2solutions net>]

On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:59, FrankK wrote:
> Just overwrote my 7.2 with a virgin 9.0 install. I thought that 9.0 would
> recognize more of my Dell DIM4550 HW than 7.2 did. It did find my M/B LAN,
> but not the PCI CreativeLabs SB.

Turn off plug and play in your bios.  Then your stuff will be much easier for 
Linux to find your hardware.

[... snipped KDE stuff, I don't use KDE ...]

> The 9.0 documentation says that /boot may have to begin before the 1023rd
> HDD cylinder. The install program will not write the boot loader into a
> separate /boot partition. It will only install it into the MBR or the /
> partition.

Your misreading what it says.  It's telling you that the /boot partition might 
have to start before the 1023'rd HDD cylinder.  This has little to do with 
the location of the boot loader code, which should almost always belong on 
the MBR.

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Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
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