Re: 1.3 Gig HD & old 486 motherboard

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From: Graham Philip Crowe
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 00:00

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I am using a drive overlay on one of my linux machines. I just instaled the
overlay and then installed linux like normal.
It works perfectly and hasn't missed a beat.

I am using a 486DX33 with a 1.3GB Maxtor HDD and a crap standard IO card.

Senet News Feed (mvanders@senet.com.au) wrote:
:  Any one know if linux will work with a 1.3 gig hd and an older 486
: motherboard that dont support drives > 540mg, will linux be able to acces
: the entire drive.

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

: Mark Vandersteen
: mvanders@senet.com.au




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From: gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Philip Crowe)
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Date: 1997/10/31
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