Hi! I just installed potato to Dell Inspiron 7500 with a 18 GB disk with no problems. What kernel are you using? I think the older kernels won't support large drives. Also, take a look to Large-Disk-HOWTO.
Hope this helps... Kari On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote: > Hallo, > > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: > First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled > with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all > partitions under DOS, formatting and the mbr, Linux pretends to see a > 7,7GB harddisk. > Is this a known bug with some controllers ? Is there a driver to fix it ? > Any other ideas ? > > Klaus. > > -- > Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
