I was testing an old laptop (Thinkpad I think, 2 cores, with a 60 GB hard disk).
I wanted to install a Linux, but as the CPU was 32 bits, I had some difficulty
finding a 32 bits OS.
One of my USB keys, had FreeDOS beta on it... so I tried it.
When installing, I saw (was scrolling fast)... that it was assigning letters to
a lot (maybe A: to L:), to
2 GB hard drives it was detecting. I did not care that much, and tried to
install on the 2 Gb first disk C:.
And it installed fine... except not long after I found an other USB key with
Debian 32 bits and installed it.
I am pretty sure the laptop have only one 60 GB hard disk and not many 2 GB
hard disk.
I came to my mind that maybe the kernel or the installer... knows more than me
that the BIOS is limited
to 2 GB, and somehow it chop the disk in 2 GB sub-disks... maybe the BIOS
itself could do it...
Have you heard of such things before?
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