OT - 486 w/newer IDE drives

Mr Ian Primus wrote: If you have older 500mb to 2gb drives, another approach on your 486 or lower if you are lucky would be to install the larger drive as your D drive and install the a boot partition, or older windows on the C drive, which would be bios compatable. With windows, you need the magic cd that is shipped with wd, seagate, and maxtor, etc drives installed, and it can run off the C drive even if it is the older drive. It will then allow windows to get to the cdrive and the ddrive after you get the system up. On windows you can install to the D drive when you install, and your windows resident stuff will go on the larger drive, but you will still have the loader, etc on C. with linux, you would put /boot on the small drive, and the rest on the second drive. I believe that once linux booted it would rescramble the disk as it boots up to access the d drive properly. another way if the IDE drives interfere with each other would be to put a CD drive and the old IDE on the first IDE port, and the newer drive on the second ide port. jim