BIOS limit with old laptop.
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From: Nuno Magalhães on 30 Jun 2008 15:50 Greetings I have an old Compaq Armada 1500 that i intend to use as P2P and printer server; maybe http/sql/ftp if i use really lightweight stuff since it only has 32RAM. The thing is, the disk is a 4GB Toshiba and i wanna get something larger than my 70GB of files. Can i get any IDE disk and make a small /boot partition at the beggining og the drive? Or do i need to fiddle with BIOS limits and LBAs and a whole bunch of stuff i'm unaware of? From my feeble attemps at searching stuff i found this limit to be 32GB and that i could ahve to disable dma in order for ide to work... Any suggestions? What about server software? TIA -- Nuno Magalhães
From: Ron Johnson on 30 Jun 2008 16:50 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/30/08 14:47, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings > > I have an old Compaq Armada 1500 that i intend to use as P2P and > printer server; maybe http/sql/ftp if i use really lightweight stuff SQL? Why? What is the goal? > since it only has 32RAM. The thing is, the disk is a 4GB Toshiba and i > wanna get something larger than my 70GB of files. With that little RAM and disk space, I suggest that you stick with the console. > Can i get any IDE disk and make a small /boot partition at the > beggining og the drive? Or do i need to fiddle with BIOS limits and > LBAs and a whole bunch of stuff i'm unaware of? From my feeble attemps > at searching stuff i found this limit to be 32GB and that i could ahve > to disable dma in order for ide to work... Does it have any USB 2.0 ports on it? If so, you could add external drives to get to the capacity you need. > Any suggestions? What about server software? Static or dynamic pages? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhpROEACgkQS9HxQb37XmedjgCcD1EjtXc4g4L8x2VzSQ3P9KGP fT0AniFbvq16gGjY8GA+wLIfjloj4Q6F =Z0KB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Nuno Magalhães on 30 Jun 2008 17:10 > SQL? Why? What is the goal? The question was "Can i use large disks?", not "Should i use SQL?". If it's so vital, i might wanna serve dynamic webpages, so php+sql, or maybe sqlite. This is secondary though, the main purpose is ftp and print server and maybe firewall in the future. > With that little RAM and disk space, I suggest that you stick with > the console. I don't intend to install X and the whole purpose of this threat is knowing if it's feasable to install *A LARGER DISK*. RAM is harder to solve, i don't know if i can find something usable nowadays. > Does it have any USB 2.0 ports on it? If so, you could add external > drives to get to the capacity you need. Only USB 1.0 > Static or dynamic pages? See above. -- Nuno Magalhães
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