Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:58:14 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HD upgrade
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 6:26 am, you wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:03:11 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] HD upgrade > Yeah... that's really off-base with any HDD >8GB! As Lee wrote, if you > want to put a >8GB HDD in your Libretto, you pretty much >have< to install > the drive overlay. Some people have tried to argue that their copies of > W2K manage the large drives without the overlay. True in part. But it's > the BIOS in the Libby's that managea the drive space for hibernation. And > that's going to be at the end of that 8GB BIOS limit no matter >what< your > OS thinks. <Cough>Linux<cough> You still *must* leave that space between cylinder 1010 and1040, but if you do that, windows 9x will just see the first 8G (less a bit) and happily live there. Then you can put a more accomplished OS in the top 12G. I haven't experimented with 2k other than to prove it works but as it doesn't use the bios after the initial boot, it ought to be able to see. However, although 2k manages most of the hibernation itself using a file rather than a reserved space on the HD, there can still be events which the bios will catch first. So, you have to leave the space, and that means that irrespective of OS you can't have a contiguous 20G space. > >Hopefully David, Neil, Raymond, Pres, or Fran will weigh in on this > > soon... I know nothing... Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
