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[afan pasalic <afan@xxxxxxxx>]

ok. it looks like it's possible and it shouldn't be a big deal. though,
some modifications may apply...

thanks to everyone for help.

-afan



koffiejunkie wrote:
> Afan Pasalic wrote:
>> hi,
>> I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
>> am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot,
>> it's to big?
>
> Linux wouldn't mind, but your BIOS might.  Some older BIOS just hang
> when it tries to detect a drive that is too big.  The easies way
> around this is, if your BIOS allows it, to just set that drive to
> 'none' or not installed.  This does mean you have to use it as a slave
> though.  Linux will see the drive regardless.
>
> It gets more tricky with some BIOS (Intel and AMI comes to mind) that
> *always* tries to detect the drive.
>
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