On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
> > during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
> > diskspace
> > regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
> > It this limit also true in debian?
>
> Linux does not use the BIOS to access the disks, so it can use the
> full capacity of the disk. However, it might be necessary for the boot
> partition to be in the first 2GB of the disk.
>
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thanks for the info Eduardo..

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