large drives with linux / LBA
Hello all, I am going to be using linux to set up a small intranet web server/mSQL DBserver for a client of mine and have a bit of concern about the system i have scoped to use. they have an old dx-33 with 20mb ram that isn't doing anything which should really be fine for what i'm thinking about setting up. (any concerns?) only problem is that it only has a 128MB drive in it that i would like to be at least a 540MB. of course i can't find anything smaller than a 1.6GB these days. Because the motherboard is an old VESA thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i can do to get around this? am i going to have to upgrade the motherboard to something newer? (and then the video card too because i can't buy anything but PCI boards these days) we are trying to keep cost relatively low here. (non-profit organization) thanks for any suggestions, rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: large drives with linux / LBA
rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because the motherboard is an old VESA thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i can do to get around this? am i going to have to upgrade the motherboard to something newer? Linux doesn't have a problem with this setup. Linux doesn't use BIOS functions, thus Linux can easily access the entire drive. Lilo - the bootloader - might have problems. Lilo uses BIOS functions to load the kernel from the disk, thus the kernel must reside on a physical location on the disk that is reachable by BIOS functions, i.e. within the first N sectors (N=1024 IIRC). This is easily obtained by partitioning the disk and putting the kernel on the first partition. The rest of the Linux installation can reside anywhere on the disk. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: large drives with linux / LBA
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, rob wrote: Hello all, I am going to be using linux to set up a small intranet web server/mSQL DBserver for a client of mine and have a bit of concern about the system i have scoped to use. they have an old dx-33 with 20mb ram that isn't doing anything which should really be fine for what i'm thinking about setting up. (any concerns?) only problem is that it only has a 128MB drive in it that i would like to be at least a 540MB. of course i can't find anything smaller than a 1.6GB these days. Because the motherboard is an old VESA thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i can do to get around this? am i going to have to upgrade the motherboard to something newer? (and then the video card too because i can't buy anything but PCI boards these days) we are trying to keep cost relatively low here. (non-profit organization) thanks for any suggestions, Yeah Buy the new drive, whatever size you can find, Install the new hard drive slaved to the old drive ... in the bios do not tell it that it has a newer hard drive in it ... use the old drive for swap and put lilo on it ... so the boot drive is the 128 and the root drive in on the new biger drive. this is basicly what I have done... it works ... -k rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: large drives with linux / LBA
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, rob wrote: smaller than a 1.6GB these days. Because the motherboard is an old VESA thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i I have recently installed debian on an old DX2-66 motherboard which also would not read the LBA and in the DOS environment I had to overcome the problem with software. However, Linux did not have any problem identifying the 1.6GB Western Digital. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
