Are you sure it's 12G? I know they 'say' that, but they mess up
sometimes. Also, there's a Large-Disk-HOWTO.
If you know the stuff about the disk you can pass 'hd=cyls,heads,sectors'
to the kernel at boot and see if it recognizes that way, but if your disk
is actually 8 gigs, it won't be happy after formatting. Make sure you
have the right stuff there.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy wrote:
>
> hi ,
> i was trying to install linux ( not on i7k) on a machine with
> 12G of harddisk space.I was thinking of partioning it into two so as to
> install linux and win98.But unfortunately the fdisk program on linux does
> not seem to recognize the full disk ( it recognizes only about 8 G, about
> 1024 cylinders).why is this and is there a way to correct this.
>
> thanks,
> vijay
>
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