Hello all. Well, a friend of mine gave me an 8 gb drive to replace the one that failed recently in my old k5 AMD machine. In case those of you who are reading this are wondering, yes, I still plan to write the howto on how to convert zipslack to boot over nfs. It's just that I haven't had time for more then going to classes, doing homework, eating, and sleeping for the last few weeks (no, I'm not exaggerating either). Anyway, I put the drive in. When I start the box, it goes through the floppy seek, and I can here it accessing the drive. After that, it just sits there. Back when the 1.2G drive was in there, it went through the floppy seek, I heard it access the hd, it then gave me the good old "ok" single beep, and started looking for something from which to load the OS. Right now, (or at least the last time I had a sightling to look at the screen), the drive parameters were set to auto detect in CMOS. What I'm guessing happens now, is that the BIOS sees the new drive, sees that it is way bigger then 2.1G (which I think is the highest this bios can handle), and gets confused. So what I'm guessing I need to do when I have a sighted person here to read the screen to me, is to go into CMOS, and fool the system into thinking I have a smaller drive. I think I need a cylinder value of 1023, but am not sure what good numbers would be for heads/track, and sectors, (as well as any other geometry values I forgot to mention). If someone could either please provide good figures, or tell me how to figure it out, I would appreciate it. In case it matters, I plan to have a 10 Mb boot partition. Thanks. Greg -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
