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Jason Chall wrote:
>
> I am running the floppy disk version of BL3 
> Everything works fine with just the floppy drive attached 
> but when I attach the Hard Disk, BL crashes on boot 
> Note, hard drive is large, 80 GB, and BIOS only sees it 
> as 8 GB. 

BasicLinux is designed for old hardware, so it is not
surprising that it is tripped up by something fairly 
new, like your HD.  

> anyone know if I'll be able to see the whole 80GB once 
> I get BL running?

Maybe not.  I suspect the 2.2.16 kernel is unprepared 
for HDs that large.

> Also when I do boot without HD, BL does not seem to 
> recognize Solid State Disk though 

How does the Solid State Disk connect to the system?
IDE?  USB?  PCMCIA?  If it's IDE, BL3 should autodetect
it (but you will need to mount it yourself).  If it's 
PCMCIA, you will need to add a module and edit the PCMCIA
config file.  If it's USB, you are out of luck -- BL3 has 
no USB capability.

Cheers,
Steven

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