On Mar 4, 2012 1:13 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <[email protected]> wrote: > >
> > > > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's > > working now. The install is about done but there were a few > > peculiarities: > > > > 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I > > deleted all partitions. > > > > That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects the first partition to start at sector 2048. > > You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. > > HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > [1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/ Rgds,
