Praise wrote:
Alle 19:21, martedì 30 aprile 2002, Clayton Cornell ha scritto:
OK, I have been poking about on the web for some guidance on this. This is the scenario: I have a 386sx25 with 16MB RAM that I am installing Slackware on (I know, not SuSE, but I have tried without success all versions from 6.4 through 8.0. Slackware 8.0 includes option to install on 386 systems, and worked first try.) Anyway, the 500MB HD I currently have in the system is the limit of the BIOS. I have a 1.2Gig Quantum I want to install to give me a larger sandbox to play in.
The problem is... how do I get around the BIOS issues? Do I need to? Back in the DOS days I would download OnTrack and use that to do the BIOS redirects to give me access to a drive larger than what the BIOS understands.
Linux doesn't have problem with big disk. If the bios doesn't recognize it, don't problem, create a small partition to /boot (the bios will search in the first 1024 cyl) and after all the system.
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