On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Here's a bigger question! (Thanks for the advice and possible future
> advice if needed.) My computer is old. 486 old. Is is likely I'll have
> problems with this 15gb hard drive??? I'm afraid I will. It is
> possible I can get my hands on an 8.4gb drive. Is that likely a
> better option??
If memory serves, your 15 gig hard drive won't work properly
with your older BIOS but you should be able to access the first
8.4 gigs or so of it... maybe...
You can get IDE controller cards with their own BIOS built-in.
I haven't seen one of these in quite some time, though, and they
were quite expensive.
You could alternatively replace the BIOS on your current
motherboard.
I'd just stick with the 15 gig drive and give it a shot. Most
likely, the worst that will happen is that your 486 can only
address 8.4 gigs of it.
> And as for my being a newbie and allocating 16 megs at the
> beginning of the drive to mount /boot -- how/when do I do that?
> Obviously before I install everything. Thanks in advance for the help!
Do it before. Before anything.
Boot with a dos boot disk.
Allocate a 16 meg partition at the beginning of the disk.
Allocate whatever you will use for Windoze. Allocate whatever
you will use for Storm Linux.
Then when you install Storm, you'll delete those two partitions
and recreate them.
There are of course other ways to do this as well. :)
If you only have access to 8.4 gigs, though, this probably won't
be a problem at all... your BIOS can't use the upper part of
the drive.
--
Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/
"Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same
time will that it should become a universal law."
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