Peter Bailey
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:10:44 -0500
Are you sure it's 12G? I know they 'say' that, but they mess up sometimes. Also, there's a Large-Disk-HOWTO. If you know the stuff about the disk you can pass 'hd=cyls,heads,sectors' to the kernel at boot and see if it recognizes that way, but if your disk is actually 8 gigs, it won't be happy after formatting. Make sure you have the right stuff there. On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy wrote: > > hi , > i was trying to install linux ( not on i7k) on a machine with > 12G of harddisk space.I was thinking of partioning it into two so as to > install linux and win98.But unfortunately the fdisk program on linux does > not seem to recognize the full disk ( it recognizes only about 8 G, about > 1024 cylinders).why is this and is there a way to correct this. > > thanks, > vijay > > > --- > http://nts.ml.org > FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ > http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ > List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html > To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]