are you running the latest BIOS ? 7.9GB is quite common on older boards as a limitation (32GB is another barrier) make sure you got the latest bios and the drive should be in LBA mode i believe.
I just installed corel 1.0 on an IBM 18GB ide and it went fine (AOpen AP5T-3 i430TX mainboard) nate On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Alan E. Davis wrote: adavis >Installing potato. My system is as follows: adavis > Mainboard: ASUS P5A adavis > CPU: K6-II 400 adavis > adavis >What is sfdisk? Is it on the install disks---apparently not? I have attempted to follow the Large Disk HOWTO and jumpered the drive as a 15 Head drive, as suggested. Otherwise it was detected at 500MB. adavis > adavis >I only see 7.9 GB. Several different BIOS parameters don't improve the situation. adavis > adavis >Has anyone on this list succeeded at this? adavis > adavis >Alan Davis adavis >[EMAIL PROTECTED] adavis > adavis > adavis >-- adavis >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null adavis > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:51pm up 128 days, 7:43, 2 users, load average: 1.48, 1.55, 1.54
