Re: install problem rh6.1

["Michael Chaney" <mikeyboy tx freei net>]

Nabeel,

I just finnished overcomming this problem.  What's happening is that you are
trying to create a /boot partition that is past the 1024 cylinder limit for
LILO and the BIOS.  I used Partition Magic to resize my "C:\" drive (hda1
partition) to around 5 GB and left the rest unallocated.  Then I used Disk
Druid in the installation process to create my ext2 partitions.  If no other
partitions are present on your drive, then /boot will reside below the 1024
cylinder limit.  Disk Druid should report that /boot is past the 1024
cylinder, but it doesn't.  Instead it says it's just too big.  Good luck...

Michael Chaney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah ipass net>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:53 AM
Subject: install problem rh6.1


> Greetings all,
>
> I am putting together a new Pentium II based machine (450 Mhz) with  a
> 17 GB hard drive. I created two partitions both 8 or GB. primary dos is
> c:\ and ext dos logical drive is d:\ with the remainder of the space. My
> problem is when I begin the install of redhat 6.1 and get to the point
> of creating ext2 partitions, I get stuck. I first delete the ext dos
> partition, as I have done before, and then highlighting the remaining
> /dev/hda1 I click add and create the swap partition successfully, then
> when creating additional linux native partitions, I get the same error:
> there is currently unallocated space, / partition is too large or some
> such thing. This is a UDMA/66 (5400 RPM) drive on an ASUS P3B-F board.
>
> any ideas? I wrote previously about NFS installations on older machines;
> I abandoned that for the time being and bought a CDROM and have
> installed linux in this fashion. much more efficient.
>  Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Nabeel
> nkandah ipass net
>
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