Re: install problem rh6.1

[Paul Newman pgen com]

The whole of the partitiion that contains the /boot directory must reside below
cylinder 1024. If you have a dedicated /boot partition this will not present a
problem; it is rare that anyone, other than perhaps a kernel hacker, would need
a /boot directory of more than 10 MB.

If your /boot directory is not in a separate partition then it will
automatically be contained in the partition that contains / (ie the root
partition). That might present problems if your root partition is large, so just
make a dedicated /boot partition.

If you have windows and loads of windows apps, the best way is to have a small
first partition containing c:\windows and maybe some other stuff. Allow, say,
700MB for this (if you use the free Ranish Partition Manager you can see what
cylinder a partition would end at if you changed its size, and you can do this
without actually making any changes. You can then go and use FIPS.) Right after
that, have your /boot partition (say 10mb). Then you can use the rest of your
disc(s) any way you like.

Given the low price of hard discs now, it's a good idea just to buy a new hard
disc, but not everyone wants to do that... Anyway the point is that you dont
need to.






brandari lore kla-tencor com on 06/03/2000 17:51:03

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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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