ok, so I want to install Mandrake on this computer. As it stands now I am
having a very hard time getting support from NEC because the machine is so
old. They did come out with a bios that would autoconfig a drive and also
could do LBA mode. But I have had no luck flashing this machine with it.
They say it might not work because its for European machines. But I own
another slower laptop that HAS been upgraded to this bios. HO HUM..
ANyway.. what your saying is.. let the bios dectect it as whatever it
wants.. then when I boot from the /boot partition which will be inside that
"fake" drive it will then see the true size of the drive??
I am not sure on this.. as I have had problems with it finding incompatable
drive sizes before (posted about a week ago)
HMMMMMMMM
>> /boot 15 megs
>> / 1000 megs
>> /home bal
>> swap 128
>>
>> Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap
space: Any
>> swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128
megs per
>> mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap
partitions at
>> 128 megs.
>>
>> and then make another partition for
>> > "/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive
space.
>> > That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the
>> > system recognizes...
>> > John
>>
>> --
>> Brett Jones
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