WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 WC> Roy as you've a lot of experience with Linux on older hardware
 WC> perhaps you can give me an authoratative response to the
 WC> following question?

 WC> Is an older, under 32 Gig limit, BIOS a limiting factor 
 WC> in setting up a Linux installation on a larger than 32 Gig hard
 WC> drive? 

Short answer:  No.   :-)

Worst you might have to deal with is to configure the drive as something
other than what it actually is,  even if it's significantly smaller in your
CMOS setup.  Then you set up a smallish "/boot" partition to
start with,  and the rest of it for a "/" partition,  and let
your install roll from there.  The reason for "/boot" is to put
that on the drive near the start,  as the MB BIOS code is only used during
the initial system startup and if there's any kind of a problem with
>1024 cylinders or whatever it'll still be able to find and read all of
the files.  Once the kernel gets going,  it'll figure out what the real
story on the drive is from there,  and the MB stuff no longer comes into
play.

At least that's my understanding of it,  not having any of those newer
larger drives here myself -- biggest I've got is 10G so far.  :-)


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