install and use of linux with a drive too big for bios

[hanasaki]

Anyone have an IDE drive they would be willing to part with?
	5 - 20gig

EMail me back directly with logistics.

thanks

Leo Mauler wrote:
> --- David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>make a small parition at the beginning of the drive
>>and work with that, the linux tools will see the 
>>whole thing, if the kernel can.
> 
> 
> The only potential problem here is that he might have
> to jumper the drive to be a lot smaller to fit under
> what I think is the BIOS 64GB limit for some older
> motherboards.  If the BIOS can't read the drive in its
> 120GB state, then no amount of tiny partitions will
> allow him to boot.  And if he jumpers the drive to be
> 64GB, then Linux will also agree that its 64GB and he
> loses half the drive size.
> 
> His choices are boot from floppy, or boot from a
> smaller master hard drive.
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:15:58 -0600, hanasaki
>><hanasaki at hanaden.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Have an old Asus k7m motherboard who's bios 
>>>cannot handle the 120gig drive that replaced 
>>>the 13gig that died.  Any tips on how to get 
>>>Linux installed and running again?
>>>
>>>thanks
> 
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