Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Matthias Murra > Hope this has helped to make my point a bit clearer. :-) Indeed. As it turns out, my CD file hierarchy is all messed up so it is _impossible_ to install right now. Thanks anyway! - d.

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Karl J Klug wrote: > HmI don't know Can you pass the geometry to the kernel? If > the boot messages show the correct C/H/S geometry, then the problem is > with cfdisk, I guess. There's probably a way to force fdisk to use a > particular geometry, but I've never tried it. Try looking

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Matthias Murra wrote: > Your BIOS shouldn't be a problem then. Have you checked the BIOS > settings? Yeah, all the settings are Linux-friendly. > How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian > slink system on the "8.4 GB drive" that cfdisk detected in conjunction > with

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Matthias Murra wrote: > I guess you're using a motherboard with a not-so-recent BIOS (like mine, > which is from 1997) and a 2.0.x kernel. My BIOS is dated 6/8/99 and the Official CD, which I am trying to install from, uses a 2.0.36 kernel. > Please see the Large Disk Mini HOWTO on details concer

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Karl J Klug wrote: > I think this is the drive that was in the Thinkpad we installed Linux on. > We used > > 1825/240/63 > > for the parameters. I tried, but not matter what I entered, it kept seeing 1024/240/63. As a test of sorts, I tried to install FreeBSD and it came off without a hitch. Wha

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Karl J Klug wrote: > Look at the disk settings in your BIOS to see what C/H/S settings are > being used. If you can figure out what disk you have you can get > the real C/H/S settings from the manufacturers web site. My BIOS won't tell me what C/H/S settings are being used, just size in MB, but I

Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

Karl J Klug wrote: > Specify disk geometry when you boot: Is there a way to find out what disk geometry to specify? Why isn't it detected correctly / why is it detected incorrectly? Thanks in advance! - d.

cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!

I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a 14.1GB hard drive. Currently, Win98 has half of it and I am hoping to give Linux the other half. During the partitioning part of the installation process, however, cfdisk tells me, "yes, Win98 has a 6740MB partition, but t

Re: WYSE-50

MRCE wrote: > Not a very sophisticated question, but does anyone know how > to stop the beep that comes with every keystroke on the WYSE-50 > dummy terminal? I guess the not-very-sophisticated answer would be to rip out it's speaker. - d.