Linux bloating.

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, jtannenba wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Noticed the last couple of installs, that at least
> Mandrake and RH 7.2 are getting bloated.  I had 
> trouble fitting them to 2 gig drives.
> 
> Does anyone know where a person could pick up around
> two or three 6 to 8 gig IDE hard drives cheap?
> 
> I have an old p166 that won't recognize anything over
> around 8 gig.
The limit is about 8.4 if I remember right. You should be able to use 
larger drives with Linux though since it doesn't take drive info from the 
BIOS which is where the limit is. As long as you start with a small enough 
partition to put / and /boot on you should be just fine.


> 
> Off list would be fine.
> 
> Joe
> Jtannenba@yahoo.com
> 
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