Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-30 Thread I. Tura
Actually, under the circumstances I usually found with the old computers I adminster (amateur), the ol' BIOS do not force a large disk towards 528 Mb, but there is a slight difference, and I prefer to apply the Ontrack patch. I'm used to it, and I applied it without problems (thanks for th

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-29 Thread Shaul Karl
This all discussion is about things I heard about but never had a need to actually apply. There for I am not sure I fully understand the problems. However, I believe you should: 1) look into http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html 2) Can't you tell the bios what is the CHS of your HD?

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-29 Thread I. Tura
At 13.28 29/5/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit: >I am guessing but I hope it will worth something: > >1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might >be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it. Although >in this case it might fail and return a

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-29 Thread Shaul Karl
I am guessing but I hope it will worth something: 1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it. Although in this case it might fail and return an error without damaging anything. 2) Does the 2 fd

Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-28 Thread I. Tura
Dear Debian users, I've installed Debian recently. My GNU/Linux knowledge at the time is quite basic, but I hope I can learn enough in the forthcoming times, so I can help you more than I am able right now. Let me start with the following situation that I have in my second