On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:16, BandiPat wrote:
Maureen,
Welcome to the SuSE list and hopefully soon to SuSE Linux. What are the specs on your IBM Aptiva? CPU, graphics, etc. type things. I know you mentioned it had 2 drives, 3gb & 4gb and 160mb of ram. Not disagreeing with any of the suggestions made, I just want to add another angle. Assuming the drives are standard IDE drives of their time, (i.e. not too fast), it might make sense to put linux on the one drive, but swap partition on the other.
It might be that you can update the bios in the machine from IBM to have it work with larger hard drives, although I am not sure that Linux would need a bios update to see, say a 40gb drive. If a bios update is possible, I would just to help bring the thing up to date. RAM should be adequate and everything should be supported.
put /boot on the first drive, and don't let the bios try to detect the larger drive. It'll work. Hans