Derek: Is it possible that the original owner of the computer and hard drive would have used one of the proprietary hard disk installation overlays to allow use of the entire 6 gigs of real estate on a machine with a BIOS that only recognizes 2 gig?
There are several of these overlays around; two that come to mind are Western Digital's "EZ-Install" utility and Maxtor's "Max Blast Plus." I don't recall what Seagate calls their utility, but I have downloaded it from their web site. You must have the utility on a floppy or CD in order to restore the hard drive to its original state. Once this has been done, up to 2 gig will be available for normal use. I don't think you can install Linux on a hard drive on which the utility is still in place. FWIW Regards, Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Win95 replacement > On Tuesday 18 December 2001 02:18, Derek Blazer enunciated: > > > I could always stand to do some more reading on linux, but I have > > successfully installed linux before using these disks. Before posing my > > problem to the list, I did do a brief search in the Caldera users list > > archive and the step by step site. I would gladly read up on kernel > > panic errors if somebody would point me to a reference. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
