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   Hey Nancy!   
      
    NB> the largest "drive" is under 520M, about 490M to be a little   
    NB> more precise... that's the one designated c:\   
      
   Is the size due to DOS limitations or is that the actual size of the disk?  In   
   the case of booting linux (slackware back then) the bios was limited but once   
   the kernel got hold of the system then the full real size of the disk was   
   available for whatever purpose was needed at the time.  Usually I have   
   seperate partitions for the root system, /home, archives/backups/source, and a   
   spare partition for pure play usually next generation type activities.  The   
   one I am currently writing this reply on has 7 partitions and cannot boot the   
   old fashioned i386 method via the mbr so a boot partition is required as well   
   as swap space which I normally don't have a need for.   
      
    NB> you're speaking Wizard here   
      
   I thought it was voodoo?  Anyhow my mojo was working and it did work on it (ye   
   olde 486 with the static bios).  Only Linux though.  :-)   
      
    NB> I'd guess that my requirements for a computer are a lot simpler   
    NB> than yours are.... ;)   
      
   From this angle it looks to be exactly the same.  We just have different   
   approaches to the task at hand, as well as I tend to make simpler things   
   appear more complicated then they need to be, such as taking a raspberrypi and   
   creating a pure 64 bit system for it to do fidonet messaging, this reply being   
   a prime example.   
      
   Speaking of which, this is the first message/reply ever from the new pure 64   
   bit boot I like to call aarch64-raspi3b+-linux-gnu.   
      
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   Most definetly voodoo.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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