Help installing Fedora

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:44:54AM -0400, jludwig wrote:
> On Thursday 06 October 2005 23:33, James Van Dooren wrote:
> > I have an IBM laptop that is running win2000. I have a 30gig harddrive
> > loaded with Dynamic Disk Overlay to correct the problem of the large disk
> > size with the older laptop. I want to install fedora or some other linux
> > flavor on laptop but am having problem with MBR. Can anyone suggest a
> > workaround. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> As far as the hard drive size, Linux does not care about the whole hard drive 
> not being seen by the bios, as long as the kernel 'et al' is in the lower 
> 1024 cylinders. 
> 
> After getting past the select keyboard and mouse, booting installation disk  
> cdrom, cntl-alt-f2 will 	give you a command prompt.  
> 
> Do the following;
> 
> dd if=/dev/	hda of=bootsect bs=512 count=1
> 
> This should clear the drive of all remnants of the MBR.
> 
If you want to clear the MBR and not the partition table then:
bs=446 
should be used.

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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
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