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>>>>> "City" == City Barber Shop <lynnal@cblink.com> writes:

    City> Since I have much to learn still, may I ask yet one more
    City> question?  I am not quite grasping the concept...of
    City> Partition size .as relating to the entire physical HD or the
    City> two created hard drives.  Is my partition size based on the
    City> actual real physical size of the HD?  (which is 2.5 G) Or if
    City> one large HD has been divided into two smaller HD's , would
    City> the partition size be based upon the created HD sizes?

When I, and any Unix person for that matter, says "drive", they mean
the piece of hardware, not a partition on it.  When I mean a
partition, I will say a partition.  Microsoft confuses this issue by
making partition, but then calling them drives.

To boot from a drive, the partition being booted typically needs to
*START* below the 1 gig point, and have enough headroom before that 1
gig point to hold the entire image to be booted.  The partition can go
past that point, but the bootable image should be contained entirely
below that point.  Again, this is a BIOS restrivction, not a drive
problem per say.  Maybe some newer bioses have fixed this nusiance.

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