On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:26:13PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE disks makes their root < 504mb > > and at the start of the disk, or has a small /boot? I've never done it, > > and I've had no problem. I've been running Linux for over 3 years. > > Do DOS and your BIOS see the disk as just 500 GB though?
DOS sees all of it. I use LBA mode. It works fine. > Interestingly, I saw an article today that Win9x users with FAT32 are > now experiencing the same kinds of problems, especially on *massive* > hard disks. The BIOS has new problems with 8Gb+ drives. So does NT 4 until you apply service pack 4. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org