Get one of the surplus 2 Gb drives from all those years ago and use it for /boot and /tmp (works for me) :)
William On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Matthew Lavigne wrote: > put grub on the floppy with no kernel? > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:29:06 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Mack NA3T > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, David Rasch wrote: > > > > > I had good luck on one of my systems disabling the hard disk in the > > > bios (the bios only detected 138GB of 200GB). > > > > I've had to do this with all my old machines as the disks get larger than > > the BIOS can handle. The problem then is that you can't boot off the hard > > disk anymore. I solved this for Linux 2.4.x kernels by booting off a > > floppy, but you can't boot off a floppy with 2.6.x, so I guess these older > > machines will stay at 2.4.x > > > > Are there any other solutions? > > > > Joe > > > > -- > > Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina > > jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map > > generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml > > Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! > > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
