On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:27 PM 3/22/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: > >On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Does anybody on this list knows which is the maximum size of a harddrive > > > that linux 0.99.15 can boot on ? > > > >No idea, however one rule of thumb must be, BIOS support, if the bios > >supports > >30G drives then that will possably be your limit. > > > >Did we have such drives back then what would it be 1993 +/- > >I doubt it, never really though of it really. > >
First of all thanks to all for the reply > The oldest Linux I could find here to check was a Yggdrasil distro from > 1994, and even that had the 1.1 linux kernel. (I believe an older version > of Yggdrasil used 0.99, but I lost that long ago .. and I never could get > it running, so I suppose that, in a sense, my answer to your question is "0 > MB".) It spends a lot of time discussing minimum partiion sizes but not > maximum ones. My memory is that 512 MB drives were the common high-end > drives around 1994, and 2 GB or so was the absolute maximum one could find > to buy. > I found a site http://linux.ka.nu/ which has slackware 1.1.2 and i thought to give it a try on my 486 machine. The problem is that i have a 6.4GB hard drive :-) > In any case, what will limit you is, most likely, not Linux itself, but > either LILO or fdisk. Old versions of LILO will be subject to the > 1024-cylinder limit, requiring that you place a small /dev/hda1 partition > on the drive and use it as /boot . > I booted the kernel from slackware 1.1.2 distribution (linux 0.99.15) and it says that my harddrive has too many heads (255) ;-) but that's on a 40GB maxtor :-)) Thanks again -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in". Kim Alm on a.s.r. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
