Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Mon, 06 Sep, 1999 à 05:39:31PM -0400, Edward S. Baiz Jr. wrote: > Well I have made alot of headway in installing Linux on my Atari Hades, but I > have run into a snag. Just need some advice. Right I have been able to > create and activate Swap and Linux partitions using my Jaz drive. The

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Edward S. Baiz Jr.
Well I have made alot of headway in installing Linux on my Atari Hades, but I have run into a snag. Just need some advice. Right I have been able to create and activate Swap and Linux partitions using my Jaz drive. The problem comes when the Debian INSTALLATION PROGRAM gets to the next step of

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Martin Oldfield
I've been playing with a couple of boxes with large drives on over the weekend and here are some more data: 1. Dell box with 20GB Maxtor and Phoenix BIOS. The box came with a single 98 partition which we resized with FIPS to 16GB Win/4GB Linux. Neither the slink nor potatoes cfdisk liked th

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, I amrunning my debian from a 14.4 gig IBM drive... (its fast :) I did have some troubles -- many things thought it was a seven gig drive, but sooner or later I convinced fdisk how big it was, and haven't had trouble since, despite the kernel still reporting it a 7 gigger at boot. One thin

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 03:19:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I did not see any replies to this query from a previous posting, so I'll > ask again. Has any one here tried using Linux (Debian Slink) with a hard > drive in the size range of 15 to 27.5 Gb. I want to install 2 of these > now a

Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
I did not see any replies to this query from a previous posting, so I'll ask again. Has any one here tried using Linux (Debian Slink) with a hard drive in the size range of 15 to 27.5 Gb. I want to install 2 of these now and 2 more later in my server. I have seen numerous questions regarding usage