From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 19:46:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F4A16A41F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:46:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEAF43D46 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:46:22 +0200 id 00000100.432DC40E.00017C4E Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:47:32 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20050918214732.7e6e12a9.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <200509181809.23768.freebsd01@dgmm.net> References: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st> <200509181809.23768.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: what was it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:46:23 -0000 On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:09:23 +0100 dgmm wrote: > How old? > > 32MB is one number which comes to mind from MS-DOS 3.2 days. > > I've just repaired an old PC for a friend (Pentium 133MMX). While testing, I > used an old 10GB HDD I had lying around. The BIOS would only see it as 8GB > It didn't understand the existing 10GB bootable Win98 partition/OS on it. In replying to this messages I want to thank all of you who responded to my OT question. I'm using msdos-6.22 therefore fat32 is a no go (it was supported as of dos7). At the moment I have a 1.4Gb drive in the machine which works ;-) (2gb limit) I'll replace it with a 10Gb drive : 2Gb for dos and 8Gb for win98. It should run all the kid will need on his old P.I-166. I lost quite some hours today in replaying some old games I used to play a lot years ago. Kyrandia i.e. has some music that used to hypnotise me. Never did again until today. I found one of those old original soundblaster-16 isa cards. Boy o boy, it was like everything came back.. I *never* understood why those modern soundcards are NOT able to imitate that old soundblaster-16 isa-sound. They don't even come close. The sb16 sound is unique and only the real thing brought back quite some memories. What a sound. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja