Installing Fedora Outside First 4 GB
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Dec 27 17:46:54 UTC 2003
Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Holden McGroin um 18:03:
> Hi!
>
> A friend told me that it wasn't possible to install Linux outside of the
> first 4 Gb on the disk. Does anyone know if this is true or not? They
> have a hard disk of 20 Gb and have Windows 2000 installed on the first
> 10 Gb of the disk, with the remainder unpartitioned. Ideally, they'd
> just like to know if it's possible before they try to install it. Are
> there any limitations on where you can install Fedora on the disk
> (assuming there's enough free space to hold Fedora)?
>
> Cheers,
> Holden
Some time - or even long time - ago lilo was unable to address beyond
cylinder 1024 (which was not a fix GB limiter).
Fedora, especially with grub as bootloader has not such limitation. Even
actual lilo does not have it anymore.
Alexander
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