Just did this, you don't want lilo or linux in any form. Get something like Disk
Wizard which can fdisk and format your large hard drive and prepare it for
windows only. The earlier versions of this left a bit of "translation software"
behind which is ok for windows but lilo may not work properly. But now I think
you can fdisk and format the disk and then remove the "translation software"(a
big blue banner with "Disk Manager", or some such). I just installed win3.1 and
linux on a 3.2gig drive split about equal. Lilo didn't work so I set up loadlin
to boot linux. Take a look here;
http://www.seagate.com/cgi-bin/discwiz.cgi
Get DiskWizard, it will allow you to install just about any size hard drive with
just about any old BIOS.
Daniel Gonz�lez Gasull wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an old 486 with a large hard disk (about 1 GB). As far as I
> know, the 486's BIOS cannot deal with HDs greater than 512 MB. It is
> not a problem if you install Linux, because it doesn't use the BIOS to
> work with devices. I had Linux in that 486 with the 1 GB HD.
>
> Now I have a new computer, and want to set up only Windoze in the 486.
> Windoze uses the BIOS, and it can't deal with such great HD.
>
> But I wonder, because Linux is so wonderful, perhaps I can fdisk the HD
> with Linux and install LILO there, with only Windoze. Or, at least, I
> will be able to make a minimal Linux partition for setting up LILO,
> and let the rest of the HD with Windoze.
>
> Probably I will need to make two partitions of 512 MB or less.
>
> Am I right? How can I do that? Particularly, how can I install LILO in
> that HD?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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