Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have heard of or know of the following problems:
Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). I don't have the system config. floppy which changes settings in the CMOS via a DOS executable. The BIOS in this system seems to only load the OS and provided system services but doesn't have a setup utility built into it. Does this mean I'd have a problem installing a new hard disk? My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. Mark Panzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
