Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:09:23 +0100 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what was it ? Message-ID: <200509181809.23768.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st>
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On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:34, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I'm building an old msdos machine for a little kid (very nostalgic). > But I seem to rememeber that there was an issue about the space of the > harddrive. Some kind of limit I don't remember. How large can a ms-dos > partition be? How old? 32MB is one number which comes to mind from MS-DOS 3.2 days. I've just repaired an old PC for a friend (Pentium 133MMX). While testing, I used an old 10GB HDD I had lying around. The BIOS would only see it as 8GB It didn't understand the existing 10GB bootable Win98 partition/OS on it. -- Dave
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