On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:08, BCSoft@TowerTraining wrote: > Not to pump this company twice in one sitting but you can go to > > http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Peripheral/motherboard/default_itx.asp?Cate.id= > 5 > > and pick up a 500 mhz board with onboard ethernet and video for less than > what you'll pay for the memory and video card. Plus you'll have a new bios > that will be able to handle a larger harddrive. > JMO > R > ----- > Richard L. Babcock, Owner
I have people who seem to know what they are talking about, telling me that for linux the bios isn't an issue as far as hard disk capacity is concerned. i.e. the bios can see the disk as whatever, but linux ignores that and works things out for itself. Haven't tested this personally as yet, but I have a 40GB disk due back from warranty replacement soon that might get a brief spin in an old "don't give me anything bigger than 8GB" system just to see what happens. I guess that if the bios refuses to even acknowledge that the drive is there, that might present a problem, but even that could probably be worked around using a boot floppy. Anyone care to comment? cheers Brian
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