Subject: Re: Question about upgrading a 386SX from 200MB disk to 6.4GB
To: Steven Grunza <grunza@dgms.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/06/1999 12:01:51
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 04:44:53PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> I just bought a new 6.4 GB IDE disk to upgrade my current 200+MB 
> drive.  I know the BIOS on the 386SX will not handle the full size of 
> the drive.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set this 
> system up?  I plan on removing the 200MB drive and adding a CD-RW so 

That's easy: tell your bios you have a 512MB disk, with geometry
1024/16/63. Then install NetBSD, making sure your boot partition
is below the first 512MB.
I can't count the number of times I've done this :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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