Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

28 Aug 03 04:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond:

 MK>> The best deal I am aware of is a 40G Maxtor for $125 Canadian.

 DD>> Goodness! I recently purchased a 120Gb Segate 7200RPM for $182
 DD>> Australian.   

 DD>> Of course the BIOS in the bloody machine didn't recognise anything
 DD>> bigger than 64G. Slackware 8 was quite happy to partition/format it
 DD>> all :-) 

 RJT> So how did you set the BIOS,  since it wouldn't recognized the full 
 RJT> drive?

I let the BIOS auto-determine the drive size (it thought it was 62Gb). I
made a smallish (2Gb) partition and installed Linux. Once installed and
booted I simply used fdisk to partition the rest of the drive. Linux
doesn't usually use the BIOS to access the drives.

When I updated the BIOS and got it booting again (had to re-run
liloconfig), I re-started at the beginning and made one big partiton (and
the swap partition).

Regards,
David

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