[techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?

jennyw jennyw at dangerousideas.com
Sat Aug 12 00:26:23 EST 2000


Laurel,

I tried changing stable to potato, as you suggested, but LILO still says "warning: device0x0303 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit".  Is there a way to tell whether I'm getting the right version?

Thanks!

Jen

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Fan, Laurel" <Laurel.Fan at compaq.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:04:08 -0400

>jennyw, jennyw at dangerousideas.com, said:
>> I'm still kind of new to Linux/Debian ... the way I know to 
>> get files is to use apt-get.  When we tried this for LILO,
>> it didn't get the latest.
>
>My guess is that apt is looking in the slink (2.1, current stable
>version) archive, while the new LILO would be in potato (2.2,
>current 'frozen' (getting ready to be released) version).
>
>You can usually install a few packages from a newer version of the
>distribution without upgrading the whole thing.
>
>The easiest way to do this is editing the sources file for apt, and
>then just using get as usual.  This file is located at
>  /etc/apt/sources.list
>The only thing you should have to change is to replace 'slink' or
>'stable' with 'potato'.
>
>You should run
>  apt-get update
>to get a new version of the list of packages, then you can just apt-get
>as usual.
>
>Another way to do this is to download the packages and then use dpkg to
>install it.  There's a web page at http://packages.debian.org that
>allows you to search for and download packages (make sure you're
>searching in potato/frozen or all, the default is slink/stable).
>I also find the web interface useful for finding the names of packages,
>since there isn't really a good command line package search tool besides
>grep.
>
>
>
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