I did this with a 386 a few times. Basically, it seems that once the
kernel is loaded the obsolete BIOS is no longer an obstacle. Here's 3
setups I have used.
1) boot from a linux partition at the beginning and then mount large
partition(s).
2) boot from a floppy. The drive had 1 large root parti
At the moment I'm running Debian 2 on a 386/33 with only 600MB of hard
disk space (400MB master, 200MB slave).
What I'm looking for is a way to allow this machine to take over as
fileserver. The current fileserver is a 386/33 running Windows 3.11
between crashes. It can access its 6.4GB drive o
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