Re: install help

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

"Oliver Elphick" wrote:

  >  >-13gb HD
  >  >
  >  >this machine also boots to Windows 98, which resides on a 3 GB partition.
  >  >
  >  >I was told that debian would "see" the entire hd, but cfdisk only "saw" a
      > to
  >      >tal of 8 GB.
  >
  >It depends on how your BIOS describes the disk. You need to tell it the
  >details printed on the disk case, which will be larger than the default
  >largest numbers.  This might need a BIOS upgrade.
  >
  >I found that I got your problem when the LBA option was set in the BIOS.
  >When I specified the disk geometry instead, it worked.

I seem to be wrong about the LBA; I had to use the USER option -- AUTO produced
the wrong answer, but LBA was still set.

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