Re: [UUG/MLUG] Hdd's?

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Way back in the olden days when 1.08GB drives cost $500, I bought one.  Put it 
in a 486 (old even for then) which of course could only read 500MB.  I ended 
up putting dos/windoze on about 300MB without any overlay software, and put 
Linux on the rest.

Linux was very happy talking directly to the hardware and DOS was as happy as 
DOS gets talking to the bios.

I don't know if this trick will work on the larger drives, but Linux should 
work with the overlay software as long as you are careful with your lilo.  
Lilo will overwrite the boot sector that contains the overlay boot information 
and will screw you badly.

g'luck
Nimrod

> Reminds me, I just added an 18G Western Digital drive to my roommates P100
> and I had to add the included EZ Bios fix software to allow DOS/Windows to
> see over 8G of it (even after applying the newest bios upgrade) and I want
> to use about 5G of the drive for Linux. Does anybody know if Linux will see
> the full drive and if partitioning part of it as Linux would damage the
> Windows partitions since it relies on special Windows software?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:20:06 -0600 (CST), EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:
> 
> >  well, currently we have 5gig.  I would like to replace it with something
> >  bigger.  A 10 gig drive would rock.
> >  
> >  -keith
> >  
> >  On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Ric Deters wrote:
> >  
> >  > How big do you need it? (the hard drive?)
> >  > 
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> >  > 
> >  > > -----Original Message-----
> >  > > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> >  > > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Keith Kleiner
> >  > > Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 8:41 AM
> >  > > To: Mizzou Lug
> >  > > Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] Admins: get free stuff for mlug
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Thanks for the suggestion.  We need a large hard drive if you have
> one
> >  > > lying around.  Sorry it toook me so long to reply.  Been out of town.
> >  > >
> >  > > happy new year,
> >  > > keith
> >  > >
> >  > > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > > This is the end of the year (I know you didn't know that yet),
> >  > > and it may
> >  > > > be an opportune time to con, i mean ask your boss for hardware to
> donate
> >  > > > to mlug.  MEntion end of year tax write off......  just an idea.
> >  > > >
> >  > > > Keith, email me what MLUG needs most, and I will try to stea-, I
> mean
> >  > > > dispose of in your direction.  KRis.
> >  > > >
> >  > > >
> >  > > >
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