[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking
> about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i
> repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the
> old w98 installation. i was trying to install wnt4.0 in a separate
> partition. i had NO any problems running linux. But whatever i do, i can't
> even format correctly the fat partition.
>
> i know that lilo can't boot partitions beggining in cylinder
> greater that 1024. i made booteable the partition, i also tried hda1 to be
> the fat partition. but when i format such partition (with dos) it
> recognizes it as if its size would be 2Gb, althought it is 5Gb. After
> reboot, dos does not find c: unit.
You're formatting it using FAT16, which has a partition size limit of
2.1 Gb. If you want to see the howle partition, you will need to format
it using a FAT32 version of format (you may even need to use FAT32
fdisk).
When I set up my machine, I did NT first, and installed Linux later. I
used DiskDruid to set up my Linux partitions in the remaining space. It
worked fine. I never had any problems with it (and my Linux partitions
are even at the end of my second hard drive).
I use the NT boot loader to choose my operating system and a nifty
little boot image maker called Bootpart. LILO is in the first sector of
the boot partition. Just two days ago I made it official -- Linux is now
my default operating system (it was driving me crazy... I would forget
that it wasn't, do a reboot of the machine and return to find my Windows
desktop... blech).
-Stephen-
