On Tuesday 21 January 2003 19:06, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:16:01PM +0200, Freiman wrote: > > Hello! > > I bought a new hd from seagate. it's too big for my bios (40 gb), so i > > install it with discwizard. i do th partition with discwizard, and start > > to install rh 7.3. the installer recognize the full size of hd, and the > > partition that i did. but when it start wrote the boot image to the hd. > > it said that i have problem with disk space. thank you > > moti > > The only advise I can give is to look on the net for documentation. > Perhaps the LDP Large Disk Howto? Maybe you want to upgrade your bios? > However I am not taking any responsibility in case the upgrade will fail. > > Hope it somehow help.
I recently had the same problem and upgrading the BIOS is definitely the way to go IMHO. Once the BIOS is upgraded, Linux doesn't care what size the disk is and your install should not be a problem. If you know the exact model of your mother board, you can probably find the updated BIOS on the internet. If not, I seem to remember that there's a program out there somewhere to analyze the BIOS ID and advise you what BIOS upgrade you need. In any case, when you upgrade the BIOS, make sure to follow instructions about backing up the BIOS and creating a boot diskette, because if you do something wrong (or even if there's a power outage during the process), that can leave you with an un-bootable motherboard. Try this site for more info: http://www.wimsbios.com/ good luck -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.3) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
