A Newbie question

[Kevin Brown]

I would think that you could just partition that larger drive up so that the
/boot
directory is the first one on the drive and then let the kernel worry about the
real size of the drive.  This was basically the way around the "drive larger
than 1024 cylinder" issue with old bioses and new drives.

> Hi all,
> 
> My name is john and I'm adicted to LINUX. I got my Compaq laptop to run
> Mandrake 8.1. It was my first experience with LINUX and I'm hooked.
> 
> I do have a small problem. That is my hard disk is onlt 3 Gb and compaq
> will NOT give me an update to the BIOS to add any bigger drive then 8
> Gb. I really do dislike Compaq (but that another story and a half).
> Western Digital hard drives come with software for windows to trick the
> BIOS into accepting the bigger drives. I'm wondering if any of you know
> of a program/drive that might work with LINUX to accomplish the same thing.
> 
> I've only been reading the PLUG digest for a couple of weeks, and I know
> I just missed a meeting in the eat valley where I live. I am really
> looking forward to attending so of these meeting and meeting real LINUX
> geeks!
> 
> John
> 
> p.s. I asked Mandrake about my hard drive problem and "they" tell me
> this is not possible. %^(
> 
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