an observation, and question

[Kerry Hoath]

Just a note on drive size:
Whilst your bios might have an 8-gig limit, it is easy enough to simply clip 
the drive capacity to something small and let linux find the whole drive, or 
set host protected area to 8gb and let linux override it.
Linux accesses the drive using LBA so once the kernel and initrd are loaded 
from the /boot partition which must reside below 8gb the system should be 
fine.
Still, even 2gb is big enough to install Debian if you have /home on nfs or 
similar or data somewhere else on the network.
Did doing an expert install change the parameters re package selection? I 
should try this in a virtual machine sometime see how it flies.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: an observation, and question


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> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:44:13AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
>> Strange. Something else must have been wrong. Defective drive maybe?
>
> I doubt it, since smart tools don't report any immediate drive
> problems, and since I noticed no drive/file system problems when I had
> win98 on that box recently.
>
>> Temporary network outage that caused the installer to get into some kind
>> of loop?
>
> Maybe, but I doubt that too, since mail arrived to my server box
> overnight, and the dsl modem didn't resync that night (it rarely does
> anyway). So, if there was a network outage, I doubt it was on my end.
>
>>
>> I could send you a 13 or 15 Gb disk. I've got 4 drives in the 13 - 15 Gb
>> range that I was just going to throw in the trash. I'm not 100% sure any
>> of them are good but I'm guessing there is a linux utility for testing a
>> drive.
>
> I've got a few still good older drives sitting here myself, but thanks
> for the offer. Besides, I'm 95% sure this machine's bios has the 8g
> size limit. As for your other statement, there seems to be a GNU/Linux
> utility for pretty much anything these days, and drive testing isn't an
> exception. Like I said, there definitely are tools for checking
> SMART-enabled drives, and I'd be surprised if there were no utilities
> for testing drives without SMART.
>
> Greg
>
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