Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

[caszonyi@rdslink.ro]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 05:27 PM 3/22/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote:
> >On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:11, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Does anybody on this list knows which is the maximum size of a harddrive
> > > that linux 0.99.15 can boot on ?
> >
> >No idea, however one rule of thumb must be, BIOS support, if the bios
> >supports
> >30G drives then that will possably be your limit.
> >
> >Did we have such drives back then what would it be 1993 +/-
> >I doubt it, never really though of it really.
>
>

First of all thanks to all for the reply

> The oldest Linux I could find here to check was a Yggdrasil distro from
> 1994, and even that had the 1.1 linux kernel. (I believe an older version
> of Yggdrasil used 0.99, but I lost that long ago .. and I never could get
> it running, so I suppose that, in a sense, my answer to your question is "0
> MB".) It spends a lot of time discussing minimum partiion sizes but not
> maximum ones. My memory is that 512 MB drives were the common high-end
> drives around 1994, and 2 GB or so was the absolute maximum one could find
> to buy.
>

I found a site http://linux.ka.nu/ which has slackware 1.1.2 and i thought
to give it a try on my 486 machine. The problem is that i have a 6.4GB
hard drive :-)

> In any case, what will limit you is, most likely, not Linux itself, but
> either LILO or fdisk. Old versions of LILO will be subject to the
> 1024-cylinder limit, requiring that you place a small /dev/hda1 partition
> on the drive and use it as /boot .
>

I booted the kernel from slackware 1.1.2 distribution (linux 0.99.15) and
it says that my harddrive has too many heads (255) ;-) but that's on a
40GB maxtor :-))

Thanks again



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