[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I recently got an old 386 with 4M ram and decided to put Linux on it. The
> HD it came with was only 80M which was too small, so I tried a 1G drive and
> set the CMOS type (it has no auto or user entries ) to type 60 which would
> give me 220M. Strangely the Suse 5.3 boot disk sees it as a 1G drive and so
> far has had no problems using it's full capacity.
>
Yeah it's so amazing the way linux can get at hardware when
the BIOS can't
even SEE it. I put linux on an old 486 whose BIOS had no way
to recognize a
CD-ROM and linux went right to it!
--
yours,
Andy
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