On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:32:06 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, John Seago wrote:
There would also seem to a problem with the rest of my rather elderly computer recognising the whole of the 40 gigabytes, it seems to be
able to
`see' only 33 gigabytes of the new disk. Some opinions hold that
when divided
into separate drives it will be able to `see' the 40 gigabytes,
whilst others
hold that the rest of its innards need upgrading to be able to
recognise the
whole 40 gigabytes.
this sounds like a BIOS problem, how old is the motherboard? you may be able to get a BIOS update so you can "see" the rest of the disk or you may have to fiddle around with the hard-disk parameters in the BIOS. Unless you overcome this it is very (read not) unlikely that you will see the last 7Gb.
Bios Upgrades are fun, powercut mid upgrades trashes the MB completely!
As for how many distros can you get on 1 disk, I once did an experiment with a friend and a 4Gb disk, we managed to install in no particular order
MS-DOS 6.2 Win3.11 Win 95 Win NT (server & workstation) Solaris 7 Netware 5 Redhat 5.2 (or maybe 6.0) SuSE 6.1 Debian 2.1 one of the BSDs Beos 3
This sounds like a challenge for the next meet, competition who can get the most number of OS's on a disk!
and possibly some others that have slipped my mind. the most fun part of this experiment was working out which order you had to install things in as making sure that one OS didn't overwrite another OSs bootloader.
Now I make that at least 11 operating systems, so I challenge you to put around 110 on your new disk with minimum repetitions ;-)
Thanks
D
PS Tickets yes.
Adam
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I seem to have provoked a lot of interest with this, I've just gotto wait for Chris to explain the answers to me now. As to the prospect of a power cut when playing with the BIOS, we both sat there with our fingers crossed whilst he put a downloaded updateinto the BIOS after installing the disks, as just as the critical point was reached we were in the middle of a thunderstorm!
John
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:21, you wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:32:06 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, John Seago wrote:
There would also seem to a problem with the rest of my rather elderly computer recognising the whole of the 40 gigabytes, it seems to be
able to
`see' only 33 gigabytes of the new disk. Some opinions hold that
when divided
into separate drives it will be able to `see' the 40 gigabytes,
whilst others
hold that the rest of its innards need upgrading to be able to
recognise the
whole 40 gigabytes.
this sounds like a BIOS problem, how old is the motherboard? you may be able to get a BIOS update so you can "see" the rest of the disk or you may have to fiddle around with the hard-disk parameters in the BIOS. Unless you overcome this it is very (read not) unlikely that you will see the last 7Gb.
Bios Upgrades are fun, powercut mid upgrades trashes the MB completely!
As for how many distros can you get on 1 disk, I once did an experiment with a friend and a 4Gb disk, we managed to install in no particular order
MS-DOS 6.2 Win3.11 Win 95 Win NT (server & workstation) Solaris 7 Netware 5 Redhat 5.2 (or maybe 6.0) SuSE 6.1 Debian 2.1 one of the BSDs Beos 3
This sounds like a challenge for the next meet, competition who can get the most number of OS's on a disk!
and possibly some others that have slipped my mind. the most fun part of this experiment was working out which order you had to install things in as making sure that one OS didn't overwrite another OSs bootloader.
Now I make that at least 11 operating systems, so I challenge you to put around 110 on your new disk with minimum repetitions ;-)
Thanks
D
PS Tickets yes.
Adam
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