Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

2020-12-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:56:37 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > Are you possibly conflating BIOS which is computer code in ROM on the > motherboard and what the CPU runs on power up with the MBR which resides on > the hard drive you are booting from? No, I just wanted to distinguish the old-styl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

2020-12-23 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:56:37 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:25 AM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > Just a quickie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

2020-12-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:25 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS > > > > A *what* BI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

2020-12-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS > > A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS? What would you call it? $ file

[gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

2020-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: Greetings, Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS?