Re: install problem rh6.1

[Paul Brandariz x6546 <brandari lore kla-tencor com>]

Michael Chaney wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 

Does the whole partition have to reside before the 1024 cylinder limit or just 
the beggining of the partition ? Does anyone know ?

> 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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