Do what you were doing, except add a /boot partition about 30MB in
size. This will get you around the 1024 cylinder limit and you will be
able to use the entire drive. It will also stop the message with the /
being to big. Good Luck
Kevin
George Lenzer wrote:
>
> I was trying to welcome some friends into the Linux fold
> tonight, but ran into a snag. I have done dual boot
> installations before with Windows NT and Win98. They
> have always been successful for me. Until tonight...
> Here is the situation:
>
> -One IDE hard drive (approx. 9 Gigs)
> -Windows 98 SE is installed on C: (hda1) which is 2070 Megs.
> -My friend wants to have another partition, D:, be the same
> size. (2070 Megs)
> -The IDE bus is set to use LBA in BIOS. (Cylinders = 1108)
>
> We got everything ready on the Windows side and then booted
> to RedHat 6.2 Installation. When we got to the
> partitioning section, any partition created for '/' was
> "too big". We backed out and went back to DOS. We deleted
> the logical drive D: and it's extended partition. We went
> back to the LInux inastall and found we could only make a
> partition no larger than 2078 Megs. However, after
> attempting to install RH, when we went back to DOS, we
> couldn't create a new extended partition on the unpartitioned
> space.
>
> I know that LILO can't read beyond 1024 cylinders. Is there
> anything I did wrong? What is the best way to proceed? Up
> until now, I always installed Windows 9x or NT first and left
> unallocated space on the drive for Linux. Then, I just set up
> my Linux partitions in the unallocated space. I never really
> ran into this until I tried to set up dual boot with RH 6.2
> (which I burned from an ISO) Any suggestions appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
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