I have had no problems partitioning and installing Linux on 1.2 gig and 3.5 gig drives on old 386 machines. I boot the install floppy and proceed from there. I usually just create a boot floppy. This loads the kernel into memory and IDE access from there is handled w/o the obsolete BIOS.
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for > different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that > can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that > you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly > supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to > ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to > pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.X + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
