Re: install problem rh6.1

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

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..

As far as I know, the relationship between cylinders and size
is up to the BIOS _and_ the drive, and could be anything.
Sure, unlikely, but assumptions get you into trouble.

>    Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1    17344  8195008+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

This is a problem.  Win95 took all the good space for itself.
Partition Magic has been reported to have some amazing abilities
with regard to moving/resizing FAT32 partitions.  You might
want to check it out.

Other than that, Bob McClure is right.  Somehow, you must
either move the Win95 partition, or boot to a different drive.
There's really no other option (except loadlin or floppy-boot).

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc graisystems com