Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

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

SOLVED: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Thanks to all, it seams, that slink can't handle it. Normally I have an peridiodical update over IP. So the only CD's I had got where old. Thanks, Klaus. > 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 thi

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote: >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

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Try using the 'potato' boot disks. These recognise a greater than 8MB disk. I am using a Dell Latitude with a 12MB hard drive and cfdisk on the potato boot disks recognises the drive correctly, even the existing ntfs partition was detected correctly. Hope this helps.. Johnny. Martyn Pearce wrot

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Kero van Gelder writes: | > 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 | >

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

> 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 a

DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

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