Re: Having trouble to partition my hard drive during Red Hat Installation

[Stefanus A Wartono <wartono fe atmajaya ac id>]

Ron Bramblett wrote:

> Hello Diego,
> I have had some experience with fdisk and etc. I worked as a windoze tech for a
> while. Have you gone into your dos or windows and ran fdisk from there?? If you
> do go in an remove any partition on that one.
>
> Another thing to look at. Linux boot partition must reside completely below
> 1024th cylinder of hard drive. Below the 8 GB mark. Look at www.linuxnewbie.org
> and look for dual boot.

Sorry, it's not really true that Linux boot partition must reside completely below
1024th cylinder.
If you want to install Linux on dual boot system on large HD there are 2 options:
1. Create(small)  /boot partition below 1024th cylinder
2. Install whatever you want, it doesn't matter Linux > 1024th cylinder. Once
installed, edit lilo.conf and change "linear" with "lba32" and then run
/etc/sbin/lilo

I just experienced with this when I installed Linux on 20GB with the first 12GB
partition for W98 and the rest for Linux.