Re: install problem rh6.1

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:17:43PM -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> > You neglected to mention what the cylinder boundaries are on those
> > partitions.  This is the key factor.  Check "fdisk -l".
> 
> Well its suprising that you ask this question since I thought it is 
> not possible to have 8GB under the 1023rd cylinder.. well maybe I was
> wrong. Heres the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda:
> -------------------------------------
> Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 28110 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1    17344  8195008+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2         17345    21245  1843222+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda3         21246    21679   205065   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda4         21680    28110  3038647+  83  Linux native
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Is there anything I can try?

Not an exhaustive list, but in decreasing order of desirability:

1. Install another hard disk as /dev/hdb and put your /boot directory
(and anything else you want) there.  If your CDROM is already there,
move it to the secodary controller (it becomes /dev/hdc).

2. Make a bootable floppy and always boot from that for linux.

3. Repartition the whole drive.  At the very least, you will have to
tear out /dev/hda1 so you can make it, say, 20M smaller to make room for
the /boot partition.  But then you will have to turn one of your primary
partitions into an extended partion (I recommend /dev/hda3, the current
swap partition, and then remake the swap partition as a logical
partition - oops, no, can't do that; too complex; scratch all that.)

Drives are cheap (relatively speaking). Do #1 if you have the real
estate.

> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.

Amen.

Cheers,
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