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Hi,
I myself also wish to install a 1.28GB disk on my 486DX (Yack..).
- My current board doesn't support LBA in BIOS.
- I have a VLB IDE controller, if it matters...
I think your solution for partitioning it to 512MB is Ideal, and it's
the amount I'd wish to save for DOS/WIN, but I want to be 100% sure it
will work, and that this disk could be moved to my next machine (EIDE
controller) without problems, (whenever that will be..).
Possible problems I suspect are:
1) I need an fdisk that sees all the disk to partition it, it
must then be Linux fdisk, no broblems for compatibility to DOS ??
2) If I'd want to install LILO (I use 'loadlin' normally), should
I reserve a place for it in first 1024 Cylinders, How, How
much ?
Any tips from the group are welcome, I had the disk in my hands,
and didn't buy it, of uncertainty of the above questions.
p.s. - If somebody is selling his Dx4 board, I might be intrested,
you can call me up at: 09-590255 (work time), 03-6047517(Home
time).
Yossi Amon
>>>>> "Ira" == Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> writes:
Ira> with my 1 GB disk I had a simple solution. back it all up, install a
Ira> 512Mb DOS partition with no DM and allocate all the rest for Linux (DOS
Ira> won't see it anyway)
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