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   Hallo Nancy!   
      
    NB> Richard got around that by partitioning the drive into segments   
    NB> that DOS could handle.... of course, this pentium's drive is   
    NB> less than 1G... ;)   
      
   Yes but that only takes care of the DOS limitation and not the bios's.  In the   
   case of the 486 the bios couldn't handle drive sizes bigger than 520M so I had   
   to lie about the geometry to the bios in order for it to get past the bios to   
   the boot loader in order to boot whatever.  However the only one that could   
   boot successfully was lilo installed on the root partition (not the mbr) so   
   that the kernel could correct the obviously 'haked' geometry and therefore   
   utilize the entire drive no matter how it was then partitioned.   
      
   Also no bios upgrades back then.  The only upgrade possible at that time was   
   to solder on a whole new chip which is something I wasn't about to do.  Anyhow   
   I retired that computer not too long afterwards since it lacked any 32 bit pci   
   slots which was the only sensible way to upgrade a pc with whatever looked to   
   be attractive at the time, mostly network cards at that time.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
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