Drive Overlay

Ben Pfaff blp@pfaffben.user.msu.edu
06 Apr 2000 22:26:14 -0400


Michael Iott <medicinecrow@arq.net> writes:

> Can anyone direct me to a Drive Overlay Program that will allow me to
> load a Linux distribution on an old computer with a hard drive too big
> to be read by the cmos?

You shouldn't need a drive overlay program.  Instead, tell your
BIOS that the drive is smaller than it actually is, and put Linux
near the beginning of the drive.  Linux will not have trouble
figuring out how big the disk actually is: it doesn't look in the
CMOS RAM for this information, it asks the drive itself.