[CLUE-Talk] Trying Out Debian
Don Collier
collierd at email.com
Thu Mar 15 13:40:17 MST 2001
You all talked me into it. I am switching to Debian.
Grant Johnson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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