On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> faisal wrote:
> >
> > i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
> > which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit ...... this
> > will cause problem for lilo to boot .
> > how can we change it ?
>
> When you're partitioning your drive to install linux on create a
> partition named /boot and define it's size as 15MB. That will take care
> of that problem for you. The other partitions can be what ever size you
> need them to be.
>
Or just install anyway, and make a boot disk. Then, go get the
updated LILO from the COOKER archive and install it. You'll have to
boot off the rescue floppy a time or two, but that'll get around the
1024 cylinder problem as well. :-)
John
