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Re: How to partition a 10GB disk



William T Wilson wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 romeu@petrobras.com.br wrote:
>
> > I have a 20 Gb HD. The BIOS has detected it since I installed it from
> > the first time.
>
> Once the kernel is booted the BIOS doesn't make any difference.  BIOS only
> matters if you are trying to boot from the big disk AND your kernel is not
> in the first 8GB of the disk.

Problem solved!

My new 6CD set of Debian 2.2 (potato) disks arrived last night, and potato's cfdisk
knows about 10 GB hard disks. All is now partitioned OK!

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Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."

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