The subject line is not the full story. I am planning to install e-smith on a P133, 48Mb ram, 22Gb HD.
From past experience, I know the bios will not recognise the full size of the hd, in fact it hasn't even recognised the drive at all. However I have been able to use the drive without any additional utils to enable the bios to see the drive. NT4 managed to see the drive's full size without me having to do anything (I was a bit surprised but didn't think much of it).
Will e-smith be able to recognise the drive as NT4 did? I have a utility to enable the bios ot use the large drive but I can only use it off a bootable floppy and the pc that i intend to put e-smith on doesn't have a floppy drive. I do have a 2.5Gb drive in the pc at the moment which i could install e-smith on and then see if it recognises the larger drive but the smaller drive is woefully slow compared to the 22gb one and i'd rather have just one drive in the machine.
On a slightly different note, if my e-smith install is succesful, I plan on leaving the pc running 24/7 with out a monitor or keyboard etc. I had no problems doing this with the redhat cli so I assume all management of the server can be done via web interfaces or ssh from another machine on the lan.
Thanks
NRH
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