Re: old bios 2 gb limit

From: Leon. (noemail_at_noemail.noemail.com)
Date: 12/21/03


Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:28:53 +1100


"Tux" <jesper@altern.org> wrote in message
news:3fe3082b$0$158$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk...
> Hi NG.
> I have a old AST MS BRAVO 5133, with an 1996 2 gb IDE HD limit.
> How to make use of my 4 GB HD in that machine.

delete the partitions, and create partitions using fdisk.
(when installing, you can use something like ctrl-alt-f2, alt-f3, etc to get
to a console and run fdisk /dev/hda ... and delete the old partitions and
create new partitions)



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