Partition size: yes and no - dos/win9x (I think) uses the bios to access the disk and some (most?) bioses of that time had a 0.5 or 2 GB disk size limit. Linux doesn't have this limitation as it accesses the hardware directly - the only problem may be with the boot loader (lilo/grub). Then again, I'm no expert ...
Quote (Micha @ Nov. 13 2006,16:07)
Hi,
I am just trying to install DSL on an old 486 DX2/66 PC with 16 MB Ram and an 800 MB HDD
So far all attempts to install die at the moment, where the system tells:
can't find /ramdisk in /etc/fstab
Hi everyone, all I did was to create the dir /ramdisk/tmp by hand
from command line #sudo -s #mkdir /ramdisk/tmp #dsl-hdinstall
everything went right!! now I've a fully functional hd installation on my pentiumI 150MHz, 16MB ram, hd 512MB