Partitioning Disks on DS20

["John Helly" <hellyj SDSC EDU>]

Hi.
After struggling to get the system booted under RH6.0, I find that fdisk
does not seem to be functioning properly.  I have been following the
instructions from the Compaq ActiveAnswers web site but these don't seem to
work.

fdisk appears to create partition extents with cylinder numbers I do not
enter.  For example, if I try to create BSD partition a from 3-50 it does
that.  However, if I try to create partition b from 51-1024 it assigns to
some inconsistent range.

Either fdisk is not working or I am missing something big.
Anyone have any ideas?

cheers.
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