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Article #58541Re: Large hd with old bios and Linux
From: David Chia
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:00
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Stephen Howard (stephen.howard@accc.gov.au) wrote: : I have a 2yr old Osborne with that has a phoenix bios that won't : read a hd >500mb. If I install a 1.2gb drive, can I use : the bottom 500mb for dos and the remainder for Linux? Or is Linux : dependent on the bios for accessing the drive's high cylinders? Put DOS in the first partition and the basic files of linux in the second partition, both below the 1024 cylinder. The rest of linux on the third partition. If you put DOS in the bottom 500 MB, DOS will wrap the files exceeding the 1024 cyclinder to the beginning, overwriting whatever is there. David Chia
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,f89f156bb3ecc320 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: dchia@dchia.gse.rmit.EDU.AU (David Chia) Subject: Re: Large hd with old bios and Linux Date: 1996/05/21 Message-ID: <4ns0lp$ks0@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> X-Deja-AN: 155903194 references: <4nrhck$dqg@mailgate.accc.gov.au> organization: The RMIT/UNCTAD ETO Gateway nntp-posting-user: dchia newsgroups: aus.computers.linux