trying to install rh5.2 on a big disk

[Chuck Campbell <campbell neosoft com>]

I'm trying to do a clean install of RH5.2 on a new hard disk.  The disk is
13GB with 16383 cyl, 16 heads and 63 sectors.

I can boot an existing rh5.2 on another drive, and it sees this new disk 
during boot up (excerpt from dmesg):

  ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xecf0-0xecf7
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xecf8-0xecff
  hda: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63, DMA
->hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, 12427MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1023/0/63, DMA
  hdc: ST36450A, 6149MB w/448kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63
  hdd: CDA66801I, ATAPI CDROM drive
  ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
  ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

The redhat installer falls over every time I exit the disk druid or the
fdisk.  I've tried using fdisk, and not changing anything.  No luck.

If I boot the system from the other disk in rh5.2, I can run fdisk on the 
device, partition it and even make ext2 filesystems on it, which can be 
mounted and used.  

The installer won't let me get past this point.

I used the installer on the other disk (hdc) last week with no problems.

HELP please!

thanks,
-chuck

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