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| From: | "Fergus Hayman" <fhayman6767 AT home DOT com> |
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| Subject: | DISK |
| Date: | Sat, 7 Jul 2001 07:45:55 -0700 |
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Hi
I've recently installed DRDOS on a 486 laptop 8 megs ram. The =
Harddrive is about 380megs. I have a 6 gig drive but the bios only =
recognizes about 472 megs under dos . I Installed the latest AST =
Powerexec bios update i could find . Is there a way to get around this =
limitation , with a boot partition or something. I tried an FTP of =
OpenBSD on the larger drive .( IT recognized the 6 gig drive)and it =
wouldn't boot past the set tty screen. I figured it might be looking for =
some of the data outside the bios boundry. I might try it again using =
a 450meg Openbsd partition to see if it will boot. =20
The laptop of course has no cdrom . The 3com pcmcia card i have works =
well from the openbsd boot disk. I scanned the DRDOS network drivers =
and didn't see anything for pcmcia cards. Win3.11 dosn't appear to have =
anything for this card either--- 32bit .
Regards Fergus=20
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380megs. I have a 6 gig drive but the bios only =
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about 472 megs under dos . I Installed the latest =
AST =20
Powerexec bios update i could find . Is there a way to get =
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this limitation , with a boot partition or something. I tried =
an FTP of OpenBSD on the larger drive .( IT recognized the 6 =
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drive)and it wouldn't boot past the set tty screen. I figured it =
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looking for some of the data outside the bios boundry. I =
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