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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 15-May-2019 16:34 <=-   
      
    NB>> the largest "drive" is under 520M, about 490M to be a little   
    NB>> more precise... that's the one designated c:\   
    MK> Is the size due to DOS limitations or is that the actual size of the   
    MK> disk?    
      
   Probably the DOS limitations, that was one of four partitions of the   
   disk drive itself.... C, D, E, and F, with the last three each about   
   250M and the first what was left over of the original drive...    
      
    MK> In the case of booting linux (slackware back then) the bios was   
    MK> limited but once the kernel got hold of the system then the full real   
    MK> size of the disk was available for whatever purpose was needed at the   
    MK> time.  Usually I have seperate partitions for the root system, /home,   
    MK> archives/backups/source, and a spare partition for pure play usually   
    MK> next generation type activities.  The one I am currently writing this   
    MK> reply on has 7 partitions and cannot boot the old fashioned i386   
    MK> method via the mbr so a boot partition is required as well as swap   
    MK> space which I normally don't have a need for.    
      
   I'm not sure exactly what all Richard has set up here... E has the games   
   and such, D is the one where most of the ongoing things happen, I think   
   C is where all the executables and archives are... I use F to store   
   things to get them off D to make space for more incoming, not sure what   
   else he's tucked in there...   
      
    NB>> you're speaking Wizard here   
    MK> I thought it was voodoo?  Anyhow my mojo was working and it did work   
    MK> on it (ye olde 486 with the static bios).  Only Linux though.  :-)    
      
   Oh, right... somewhere (I suppose on yet another partition) Windows 95   
   used to reside to be called up when called for... now that's been taken   
   off, and Linux put in to replace it...    
      
    NB>> I'd guess that my requirements for a computer are a lot simpler   
    NB>> than yours are.... ;)   
    MK> From this angle it looks to be exactly the same.  We just have   
    MK> different approaches to the task at hand, as well as I tend to make   
    MK> simpler things appear more complicated then they need to be, such as   
    MK> taking a raspberrypi and creating a pure 64 bit system for it to do   
    MK> fidonet messaging, this reply being a prime example.    
      
   I just need it to work (of course the Wizard is in charge of that aspect   
   of things... [g])...   
      
    MK> Speaking of which, this is the first message/reply ever from the new   
    MK> pure 64 bit boot I like to call aarch64-raspi3b+-linux-gnu.    
    MK> -={ ':read !/lib/libc.so.6' starts }=-   
    MK> GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.29.   
    MK> Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   
    MK> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
    MK> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A   
    MK> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.   
    MK> Compiled by GNU CC version 9.1.0.   
    MK> libc ABIs: UNIQUE ABSOLUTE   
    MK> For bug reporting instructions, please see:   
    MK> .   
    MK> -={ ':read !/lib/libc.so.6' ends }=-   
    MK> Most definetly voodoo.   
      
   Agreed.  :)   
      
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