It sounds as if you've got a version with an old 137G disk limit. At a rough guess I would suggest you partition and possibly (minimum) install of mandrake so you can check for any usefull settings. You should then be able to install debian in its place and then re-compile the kernel with >137G support - check its available first. Then the NTFS partition should become visible and mountable (readonly) under Linux. If you wish to 'communicate' Linux<->XP you may wish to consider a smaller Win32 type partition which can be mounted under Debian and XP then you could just partition the hard drive and then stick debian on it and ignore the fact it cant read 137G+ of bug ridden code which sounds like a blessing to me!
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tom potts writes:
It sounds as if you've got a version with an old 137G disk limit.
I believe that 2.4 kernels are limited to 137GB (a late 2.4 might work??) but 2.6 should be OK.
I'd suggest Ubuntu, since it uses a 2.6 Kernel but is Debian based. I haven't tried it but it sounds like it should work.
There is some info on this in the Large Disk Howto (albeit pretty limited info): http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.5
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:16:04 -0000, "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk said:
tom potts writes:
It sounds as if you've got a version with an old 137G disk limit.
I believe that 2.4 kernels are limited to 137GB (a late 2.4 might work??) but 2.6 should be OK.
I'd suggest Ubuntu, since it uses a 2.6 Kernel but is Debian based. I haven't tried it but it sounds like it should work.
Or what about a recent disc with the new debian-installer and boot with the 'linux26' option?
Richard.
Mark Rogers wrote:
tom potts writes:
It sounds as if you've got a version with an old 137G disk limit.
I believe that 2.4 kernels are limited to 137GB (a late 2.4 might work??) but 2.6 should be OK.
Asus Terminators with Gentoo with kernel 2.4.26 have no problem with 250gb drives...
Cheers, Laurie.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Laurie Brown wrote:
Mark Rogers wrote:
tom potts writes:
It sounds as if you've got a version with an old 137G disk limit.
I believe that 2.4 kernels are limited to 137GB (a late 2.4 might work??) but 2.6 should be OK.
Asus Terminators with Gentoo with kernel 2.4.26 have no problem with 250gb drives...
Apparently the patch for large disk support went into kernel 2.4.18 (according to my digging earlier) which is the version of the kernel included with Debian 3.0 iirc.
Adam
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