what was it ?
dgmm
freebsd01 at dgmm.net
Sun Sep 18 10:09:26 PDT 2005
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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