🚀 go-pugleaf

It's 27 Oct 97  20:31,
We'll return to mvanders@senet.com.au and All's
discussion of 1.3 Gig HD & old 486 motherboard

 mv> Any one know if linux will work with a 1.3 gig hd and an older 486
 mv> motherboard that dont support drives > 540mg, will linux be able to
 mv> acces the entire drive.

Short answer:  Yes!

Long answer:  You can run Linux on large drives without LBA enabled.
The catch is that all necessary boot files (i.e. the kernel and /boot)
must reside in the first 1024 cylinders, so the BIOS can load them on
startup.  Once the kernel is running, it will happily access the entire
drive.  The best way is to put your root partition (/) in the first 500
meg, then mount the rest of the disk somewhere convenient.   It'll run
like a charm. :-)

 mv> I currently have a disk manger (overlay or whatever there called) on
 mv> the drive and it can use the entire disk no poblems but if i try using
 mv> fdisk from linux boot/root disk the partition is competely up the sh.t
 mv> so obviously you can't use it with a the overlay installed, I just
 mv> wanted to know b4 i wipe everything on there if linux will access the
 mv> entire disk or just 540 mg (like win95 did) when i used it with out the
 mv> overlay ?

You'll get the lot. :-)  I'm running a 1.2 gig drive on a 386 under
Linux.  No problems accessing the entire drive. :-) (and the old 386
doesn't have LBA either).

... It's not crippleware. It's just functionally challenged software.
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