im not sure about your drive but i have a couple 37GB ibms and they have a jumper on them that restricts access to 32GB and below, some bios's can't handle going past 32GB. check to make sure, if you have a drive that has the jumper that its not set.
nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: davidt >Many thanks, Paul davidt > davidt >Professor Brouwer's Large Disk HOWTO is great (really an understatement), davidt >highly readable, and quite thorough, and in fact specifically discusses the davidt >issues of my 34GB IBM hard drive davidt > davidt >DELL has done something in the current BIOS to restrict access to 32.x GB as davidt >a general workaround to this problem, so I will explore whether I may have davidt >inadevertently omitted formatting and with their BIOS workaround whether I davidt >can install the Debian 2.1 CD-ROM distribution in hand davidt > davidt >If not, I can always download 2.3.21 which apparently resolves the davidt >addressing issues davidt > davidt >All the feedback is much appreciated davidt > davidt >David davidt > davidt >----- Original Message ----- davidt >From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> davidt >To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> davidt >Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> davidt >Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:42 AM davidt >Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - II davidt > davidt > davidt >> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: davidt >> > davidt >> > >I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive davidt >as davidt >> > >follows: davidt >> > > c: 6,997.0 mb davidt >> > > / 39.2 mb davidt >> > > swap 258.8 mb davidt >> > > /usr 5,004.6 mb davidt >> > > e: 20,332.2 mb davidt >> > davidt >> > Is this a typo or are you trying to reserve 39.2 megs for the root davidt >> > system? Keep in mind that this partition will contain everything below davidt >> > / except /usr, so this setup would be unusable. davidt >> > davidt >> I would reccomend you to read the Large Disk HowTo available from: davidt >> http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html davidt >> and the Linux Partition HowTo available from: davidt >> http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html davidt >> davidt >> These documents together should cover most of what is needed to make a davidt >custom davidt >> partitioning strategy that will cover your needs. davidt >> davidt > davidt > davidt > davidt >-- davidt >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null davidt > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:18pm up 167 days, 2:28, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
