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Article #543231.3 Gig HD & old 486 motherboard
From: Tony Langdon
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:00
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It's 05 Nov 97 20:51, We'll return to mvanders@senet.com.au and All's discussion of 1.3 Gig HD & old 486 motherboard mv> My appologies for not posting this eariler but thanks to those who mv> sent an email. I actually read the hardware Howto (I should have known mv> better) and figured it out. It wouldn't work with the drive overlay mv> (Disk Manager from conner) so i ditched that and formatted the drive mv> with fdisk and created 4 partitions making sure that 2 of those mv> partitions were within the first 1024 blocks 1 msdos and 1 linux native mv> to boot. mv> Thanks again, my apologies again for not reading the docs first :( If you're used to commercial OS's, Linux is a refreshing change. Ass the docs are available for free, and they're generally quite good. :-) Good to hear you've solved your problem. FWIW, I've had my head in the docs, getting IPX going. :-) ... ..the continuing voyages of the StarChip Enterkey<>.. -- | Fidonet: Tony Langdon 3:632/367.2 | Internet: tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au | | Freeway Internet Gateway, Melbourne, Australia. For information about | our services and conditions of use, e-mail: | info@freeway.DIALix.oz.au, to receive a copy of the FAQ.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,32e8c271df1a1ce9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon) Subject: 1.3 Gig HD & old 486 motherboard Date: 1997/11/06 Message-ID: <d81_9711070700@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 287562863 References: <346050c6.0@kastagir.senet.com.au> Organization: Fidonet: Freeway Usenet <=> FTN gateway X-FTN-To: mvanders@senet.com.au Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux