From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2006-03-02 09:41:54
Hello,
* On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:26:02PM -0500 William Levak wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
> >2. with "advancing" PC technique, you will get more and more problems
> > installing DOS (or Win 95/98) on them. I have heard (!) people have
> > problems installing DOS on very large HDs.
>
> DOS is limited to 13G partitions. If you have an old BIOS, you may be
> limited to 2G.
Yes, I know that DOS cannot create (nor handle) arbitrary length
partitions.
Anyway, what I have been told is that DOS even cannot handle a much
smaller partition (i.e., 100 MB) if the HD is too big. IIRC, they said
it is due to the CHS handling of DOS and the fact that never OS use LBA.
Now, I am not sure if it was DOS not able to handle such things, or if
it just cannot coexit with other OS on such a big HD.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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