Re: Linux from scratch question

You should be able to on a new PC. The older PC's often have a limit on the BIOS
which require an extender. If you were involved with PC's from the start, you'll
remember the 32 meg limitation, followed by the 520 meg, the 2 gig, and 8 gig limits.

I don't recall which of these were due to DOS/Windows, but I do recall the 8 gig limit
being there on recent PC's due to the BIOS. I have removable hard drives on my main
PC, with Linux on a 4 gig. Windows 98 is on a 10gig and required the extender.
This motherboard is only about a year old, with the design maybe a year older than that.

The bios recognized it as a 8 gig, I had to use the extender to recognize it as a 10, later I was
able to get a bios update to recognize it as 10. I believe these write into the MBR to spoof the
BIOS, but it's been a while since I looked into it, and I wasn't really interested.

I just checked out the large disk how-to at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO

It states that with a recent kernel you should have no problem, but if you do, gives enough
info for you to figure things out. It also states that Linux can work with On-Track, which is the
disk manager usually supplied to overcome the BIOS limits.

Marshall

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Mauch <dmauch@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux from scratch question


> I installed it on a 13 Gig hard drive with no problems.
> Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Pharoah <m_pharoah@...>
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 5:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux from scratch question
>
>
> >From: "Marshall Pharoah" <m_pharoah@...>
> >
> >
> >Does Linux get around the 8 gig bios limit in some way? I've never tried to
> install it on a drive
> >of that size. My largest is on a 4 gig.
> >
> >That should be the only reason you would need the disk from the hard drive
> manufacturer, to overcome
> >the bios limitations. If your PC is relatively new, you wouldn't need
> that.
> >
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