Re: Installing Linux on a 20 Gig hard drive with Win95?

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:03:54 -0500 (CDT)

You should really read or ask for help before doing something that silly.
The largest drive that I have played with is 12.7G and could make a single
partition, therefore it can be done.

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Marvin G Wise Jr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Because of the 8.4 G limitation, I have to use EZ-Drive to access all 20 G

Again, you should read more, the 8.4GB limit was solved long ago.

> of my new hard drive. My question is is I want to set up one of my
> partitions for Linux, will it work with the EZ-Drive software? I have 10 2G
> partitions set up....

Yes, but why 10 2GB partitions? You are handicapped by Win95, dump it.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/2.2.5.uniform-ide-6.19.patch.gz
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/2.2.6.uniform-ide-6.19.patch.gz

APC UPS Daemon Support Center.
http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
GPLed source on April 7, 1999

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