Thanks for your message, Tom.
> I use EZ-drive but it is a DOS app. Couldn't you make a tiny
> DOS partition on the hard drive and boot to that, then use the rest
> of the drive for Linux.
>
I intend to have one or two DOS partitions at the start of the drive.
However, the problem is that, when booting into Linux, DOS never comes
into it, so no DOS programme will run it that point. However, as part of
the huge amount of Linux documentation, there's an HOW-TO on Large DIsks
and that seems to suggest that the upper limit for Linux is
120-something gigabytes and also Linux doesn't use BIOS, so the BIOS
limitations don't come into it. The only problem is that every system
that uses that drive has to agree on the drive's geometry, so it's
necessary to get Linux to co-operate with what DOS will have to use as
geometry.
I haven't finished reading up on this problem yet, but I shall have
to do so soon, as I'm hoping to get the new disk this week. Ask me the
question again in about a week's time and I should hopefuilly have a
more helpful answer for you!
All the best,
Gerald.
