Re: [suse-axp] Start from the 3rd block or cylinder?

From: Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 06:11:40 PDT

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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:11:40 +0200 (MEST)
From: Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007041511120.11482-100000@fatou.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Start from the 3rd block or cylinder?

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, G. Hugh Song wrote:

>
> Another question regarding the initial installation:
> In the manual page 25, I am supposed to start the first
> cylinder for either data or swap from the 3rd block.
> However, fdisk does not show anything in block unit, but
> in cylinder unit. Are they identical?
No, they aren't. But block is definitely incorrect,
it has to be cylinders.
>
> Thanks.
>
> G. Hugh Song
>
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                              Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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