linuxgeek: RE: [LINUX_Newbies] LINUX ThinClient

I sounds like a BIOS limit, back in the day most BIOS would only recognize a
up to an 8G drive, so I'm guessing that the fact that it will only see the
first 8G is because BIOS will only let you partition to 8G. You could see
if there is a newer BIOS version for your system, which may let you
partition to a larger drvie, if the firmware addresses that issue or use a
drive manager overlay to get the full size of the drive.

Good Luck,

Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Adam Shumann
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 11:51 AM
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] LINUX ThinClient

The laptop will only read the first 8gb of a 20gb hard drive i tried, the
HDD wrks, I put it in an old 486 desktop and it ATTEMPTED to boot linux
correctly. The HDD woks fine.

The laptop was successfully running 95 when i got it. I had to put dos
6.22
and win 3.11 on it when i screwed it up in an attempt to install 98 with a
bad disk. It ran 3.11 fine. Now the IDE controller wont find any HDD. :(

Adam

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 16:47, card_man93
<ashumann13@gmail.com<ashumann13%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Every time when loading off HDD the floppy drive trys to read and wont
> stop. I can insert a
> > floppy and it stop reading but the boot will not continue.
>
> One more thought...
>
> Are you POSITIVE that A: your existing hard disk is good, and does not
> have a b0rked boot sector or other catastrophic problems and B: that
> the disk controller is not b0rked?
>
> Does ANY OS install and run on this thing NOW (regardless of what was
> pre-installed on it when you started). Can you get an old Windows95
> or Win98 install disk and install that and boot?
>
> If you can, then there is indeed a distro issue, but if you can not,
> then your problems are not "What small footprint distro can I run" but
> "Where can I get a working system to install my small footprint distro
> on?"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
> --
>
> Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a
> day." -
>
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marie_von_ebnereschenbac.html
>
>

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