[CLUE-Talk] Trying Out Debian

[Grant Johnson]

At 11:35 AM 03/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:

>My Red Hat installation has finally outgrown the partition it lives
>on, so as I type this the good folks at UPS are delivering to me a
>new 8.4 gig drive (the biggest thing my creaky old motherboard can
>handle) which will be devoted entirely to Linux.
Neato Linux trick:

My "creaky old motherboard" will not even get to the memory checking if it 
knows about anything bigger than an 8.4 attached to it.  So, I told it to 
stop sutodetecting on my secondary master, and then hooked up a 45G 
drive.  It boots off the same old 6.8G drive hapily, then Linux found the 
45G , fdisk, mkfs, happy time with lotsa more room.  The BIOS only has to 
be nice to the boot drive.