[ltp] Spare HDD for TP760XL

[James Knott]

Bert Haskins wrote:
> Mendel Cooper wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Harry Popov wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>As I reported I am a newbie to Linux. After several months of labour
>>>I am ready to migrate 100% to Linux. The only problem is that I need
>>>more space to have all programs I need compared to windows. My HDD
>>>is 1Gb.
>>>
>>>Following the thread about changing HDD I see quite a few of you
>>>have done that. Please if some one is still keeing his old 6Gb or
>>>more disk and not going to use it in the future make me an offer. I
>>>will buy it. I need a RAM too.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I believe that the largest HD that the 760XL BIOS can recognize is 4 GB,
>>and you might have trouble with a larger one.
>>
> Not true!
> I have used HDs as large as18g with no problems on several 760 models.
> Both Windoze and Linux (at least after about 6.0)  ignore the bios 
> limitation
> and do their own management..
> I have allways used a first partition not larger that 2G though.
> The boot must start on a active partition that is 2G or less.
> 
> The real problem with the early models is that they can't support enough ram
> when used with the recent, popular distros.
> .FC3 seems to get stuck in the mud with 128M or less.
>  
> A few years back I had a 760XD with a 2.1G HD running RH 7.3
> and it was nice little package.
> LOL
>      Bert
> 
>>
>>Try eBay for deals on 3 and 4 GB drives. You might be able to get one
>>for as little as $20.
>>
>>BTW, a 2 GB drive is plenty big enough for a minimal Linux install,
>>if you leave off KDE, Gnome, and OO. Icewm works just fine on older
>>low-resource TPs.

I also ran Mandrake (forgot which version) on a 760E & 2GB, about 5 
years ago.