[lug] Installation Guidance Needed

[Peter Hutnick]

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:06:37AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:

>   > I figure I'll install the hard drive, configure the BIOS for it, run
> FDISK (from a bootable Windows 98 floppy I have), and then format
> it. But the
>
> Somehow i fear this won't work. The smallest IDE drives i seem to be
> able to buy are in the 10xn Gb range. I doubt that an old 486 with  the
> original bios will be able to deal with those.

This is no problem.  Linux does not use the BIOS (int13) for disk access. 
WIth LILO you will need to have a boot partition that is BIOS accessible.

I gather that GRUB doesn't even need that.  Apparently it fits all the
info it needs to boot the kernel into the boot sector.  YMMV.

-Peter