Re: Large hard drives and debian

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 07:03:51PM +0000, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hi!
> I quite enjoy debian, and I'd like to install it in a large hard
> drive. However, since slink has a 2.0 kernel, I suppose that it wouldn't be
> too happy about a hard drive > 8.something Gb.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? I know debian uses fdisk, and I
> suppose that you could call fdisk with the geometry you need, but... how on
> Earth do you find that geometry out in the first place?

Should be on the disk in the first place... if you're happy enough to crack
the box open, disconnect all the leads and take a look ;) Otherwise, it
could be reported in the BIOS, if it's set to automatic detect.

A.D.

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