On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Matt Herbert wrote:
>
> Hey everybody,
>
> After an awesome quake 3 LAN party this weekend :), one of my friends
> decided he wanted to try linux on his system. I excitedly agreed to
> help him install Red Hat 6.1. To my surprise and disappointment, I
> couldn't get it installed to save my life. He has a new system with
> a 27 GIG IDE hard drive. When he set the system up, he formatted a
> ~24 GIG Windows partion, and left 3 GIG as unpartioned space. For
> some strange reason, the redhat installer simply wouldn't allow me to
> create a / partion on that space, it kept saying there wasn't enough
> room.
You've run into the 8GB problem... For LILO to be able to boot from your
/boot partition, it needs to be in the first 1024 (IIRC) cylinders of your
disk. As partitioned, I don't believe there is any way to install Linux on
your friend's disk. There is hope though... you can get partition magic,
move the partition, create a small /boot partition at the beginning of the
disk, and then create the rest of your partitions at the end of the disk.
--
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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