Re: Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders

Linux fdisk can partition disks over 1024 cylinders - at least the version I have (2.9g) can. Cfdisk (v0.81) also can. These are the current slink versions in the util-linux package. Another option is the DOS-based Ranish Partition Manager, which you can find here: http://www.users.intercom.com/~

Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders

Hello everyone, we just bought a brand-new computer which has a 18 GB (!) EIDE HD and I want to put Linux on it. It seems to have 2028 cylinders and I chopped of the space for Linux after the 1020th cylinder to stay under the 1024 cylinder limit for booting Linux directly from HD. When I st