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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:01:14 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Can't dump to dump partition)

In <20050814191929.TXRN24042.mta11.adelphia.net@[192.168.1.99]>, on
08/14/05
at 12:19 PM, "Michael Rakijas" said:

>1) Can the general rule concerning booting beyond the 8GB boundary be
>summarized as needing both eCS/MCP and a BIOS that supports beyond 8GB
>(1024 cyl) booting?

Yes.

>And the corollary, that either condition not
>satisfied means you can't get it?

Yes. However, lack of BIOS support is very unlikely if the MB is truely
ancient.

>2) Is there a way to tell in advance that the BIOS will or will not
>permit beyond 8GB boot? This will definitely affect my partition
>planning.

See:

http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/extdisk.html

>I know in the conservative option, it doesn't seem like much of a
>difference but I'd like to have a large main boot partition. The
>ambitious option would really work best for me.

I still prefer a smaller boot partition.

You might consider

C: 1GB HPFS boot
D: 6GB JFS apps
E: 1GB HPFS maint
F: 1GB FAT dump
G: ?GB JFS

Boot contains apps that I consider integrated into the OS. This means I
want to backup and restore them as a unit.

Regards,

Steven

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