Re: Using USB memory key as boot directory for older computer?

On 6/28/07, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:

I have found a lot of articles on installing an entire Linux distribution onto a USB memory key. What I want to do is install Linux on an older computer, with an 80GB hard drive, but the BIOS doesn't like hard drives bigger than 64GB. The computer is one of those systems built to fit inside a compact case, so there is only room for one hard drive inside the case.

Have you tried lying to the BIOS and telling it the drive is small enough to work with?. I remember having to do that with an 8G drive on a system that couldn't quite see the whole thing. Then Linux was able to see the extra space that neither the BIOS (nor Windows relying upon it) could work with. I think I used it for extra swap.