WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to MARTIN ATKINS:

-> For the time being ATAPI is the least of your problems. You said
-> some where that you have a ram based setup. Can't you make a Linux
-> boot floppy and fdisk from that? I mean of course after you have
-> moved the H/D to the /dev/hda position.

 WC> Interesting idea but the motherboard BIOS won't see over 32 Gig.

Yeah,  but the MB BIOS is irrelevant once the linux kernel has control --
it doesn't use it,  unlike dos, windoze,  etc.

 WC> I already have a Tom's rootboot disk made up. In any case the 
 WC> Knoppix release already gives me that capability from ram drive 
 WC> but no longer sees the drive after the Windows installation 
 WC> attempt.

Hm.



-> WC> Nope, no more Windows for me thank you.

Probably best.  :-)

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