On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 07:47:27AM -0600, Duggan Dieterly wrote: > i followed the instructions using FIPS to partition my hard drive. the > drive is a 25 GB drive. the partitioning of DOS partitions seems to have > > when i run linux cfdisk, i go to partition the hard drive to create linux > partitions, and i get the following message: > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition > Press any key to exit fdisk > Use fdisk instead but fdisk will complain about cylinder bigger than 1024. Try use x(pert) function -> c(ylinder) to set the correct number, then fdisk has no problem handling big HD. But I have tried it up to 13GB only.
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